From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solid...
And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.
Wars were connected by arms manufacturers, the same arms manufacturers who made the guns used in robberies, who made the guns used by crazy people in America when they when on the rampage in a shoppin...
Gie’d her a total riddy,
What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?
It was a quiet street—people kept themselves to themselves. It
Means they’ll mostly be Glasgow – and you
Went to take a look at it. A plaque
Он находился настолько ниже этих людей на социальной лестнице, что сомневался, видят ли они его вообще. С каждым шагом поднимаясь все выше, они спиливали за собой ступеньки.
Job, actually. I read it once a long time ago. It seems more frightening now though. The man who begins to doubt, who shouts out against his God, looking for a response, and who gets one. ‘God gave th...
Groynes divided the mostly sandy beach into neat compartments.
Superintendents, chief inspectors, inspectors, sergeants and constables. If an officer works for CID (Criminal Investigation Department), then he or she will carry the prefix D (for Detective). A DCI...
That was the problem with having money: you ended up with decisions to make. And if you bought anything, where would you put it? He'd need either ditch something, or to start on another carrier bag.Th...
Poor girl. She would change. The idealism would vanish once she saw how hypocritical the whole game was, and what luxuries lay outside university. When she left, she’d want it all: the executive job i...
Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God’s religion?
Brain Salad Surgery.
Like he could use a good meal. Rebus had seen more meat on a butcher’s pencil.
The Scottish vernacular is rich in colourful euphemisms for inebriation: ‘stocious’, ‘stotting’, ‘guttered’, ‘steaming’, ‘steamboats’, ‘wellied’ and ‘hoolit’ are just a few. Another is ‘mortal’, as in...
Jim
Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad.
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