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1 Best short story I’ve ever read
‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme. It’s set in a bunker, and is perhaps about nuclear war, or perhaps not – it doesn’t really matter. Two men wait for their relief, and contemplate killing each other, and wait more, and sing as they cradle one another to sleep.
2 Book that should be on the national curriculum
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. Two teenagers play sex games with eggs, watch a matador get killed through the eye, then cut a priest’s eye out after they’ve made him come over his cross. I gave it to all my godchildren for Christmas.