The book starts weirdly, with Fellows fleeing the attention of a ghost child that haunts his house, and grows steadily more surreal as he reads Boursier's stories one by one, with each reading of the text seeming to subtly transform the eponymous city.
As the day Dan and I had arranged for the hand-off approached, his emails started to get weirdly personal and he dropped the LOLs.
But over the next few days, they stopped biting and started "behaving weirdly" in front of the mirror, swimming upside down, for instance, or doing repeated bursts of acceleration past the mirror.
Instead, he's got shinier and has started morphing weirdly into Christian Bale (or as the Go Fug Yourself girls wisely put it, looking like he "ate Christian Bales head").
Witnesses describe how he started behaving weirdly, and when security guards came up to him and asked for a ticket, he fell on the ground and started shaking and foaming at the mouth.
If the cat gains any kind of disease, or starts acting weirdly, take it to the vet as soon as possible.
I have started viewing people weirdly.
Weirdly, I started thinking, maybe this can be your career, just do expert crisis advice – what happens when you're at the heart of a crisis, and how to avoid it".
For a meeting that's supposed to be dictating the future of global drug policy, it started off on a weirdly twee note.
And his book starts to sound weirdly premonitory: here is Barthes surrounded by his glum little icons, fantasising his own "total, undialectical death".
