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...
What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?
Means they’ll mostly be Glasgow – and you
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...
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.
Went to take a look at it. A plaque
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...
Groynes divided the mostly sandy beach into neat compartments.
Gie’d her a total riddy,
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?
Like he could use a good meal. Rebus had seen more meat on a butcher’s pencil.
Brain Salad Surgery.
Jim
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...
He’s a piece of the jigsaw.’ ‘Maybe so, John, but if he is, he’s a bit of sky or cloud – I can see the picture clearly enough without him.
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...
If it were a peg, you couldn’t hang a fucking hankie on it, never mind your coat.
Also, he was more discriminating now than he had been then, back in the old days when he would read a book to its bitter end whether he liked it or not. These days, a book he disliked was unlikely to...
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