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This reads as a warning against improvising inner discipline only when life becomes difficult. It points to the idea that a steady practice, whatever form it takes, has to be built in calmer seasons if it is meant to hold under pressure. It lands in the ordinary crisis of being overwhelmed, when a person suddenly discovers they have no habits to lean on.
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About Douglas Coupland
Canadian visual artist and writer
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian visual artist and writer, known for his 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Trained first as a sculptor, he became widely known through fiction rather than through the visual arts. Generation X brought him international attention and helped popularize the terms Generation X and McJob. He later published many books, including novels, short story collections, and essay collections, and also wrote as a columnist and contributor for periodicals such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and Wired.
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Books by Douglas Coupland
JPod
2006
Miss Wyoming Uk Edition
2000
The gum thief
2006
Hey Nostradamus!
2003
Shampoo planet
1992