Pity Party of One #5:  “M.E.,” by Gary Numan.

For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything. Nothing is alien to him. But what I’ve done, he thought; that’s become alien to me. In fact everything has become unnatural; I’ve become an unnatural self.

—Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions.

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(Suite of the Week is a five-song playlist built around a theme to give you, dear reader, a soundtrack to the working week.  This week’s theme: songs about angry introversion, about building walls, moats, and crenellated towers to keep people away.)