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One corner of the music room was devoted to my desk where I also did my investigative work. Every hardboiled sleuth, even Mike Hammer, that dick, had an office. But I draped a poster—the Circle of Fifths—over my evidence board, so no one
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“He liked it for its modesty among the bigger efforts. Like a human soul should be in the world, among elephants, galaxies.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“It was not just because he was old, and looked old to them, but because he was a pensioned ghost from the strange past, a pointless survivor, an old soldier of forgotten wars. A remnant, with a torn gansey for a soul.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“People endured horrors, and then they couldn’t talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“To him this was the whole point of retirement, of existence – to be stationary, happy and useless.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
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― Old God's Time
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