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'Power is crack-cocaine for your ego and battery-acid for your soul'
Luke Treadaway reads from The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. He is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb - likeable, good looking, and extremely dangerous. Here he muses on the nature of power - 'Power鈥檚 comings and goings, from host to host, via war, marriage, ballot box, diktat and accident of birth, are the plot of history.'
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