You must have a special relationship with pain if you'd actually have gone through hitting yourself with a hammer before reading Use of Weapons in its entirety,

You must have a special relationship with pain if you'd actually have gone through hitting yourself with a hammer before reading Use of Weapons in its entirety, and finding the former more pleasant. I'd just have stopped reading if I reached that point ;) Absolutely love the Culture series, by the way. It's a tragedy that Banks died far too young.