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London’s cemeteries were so overcrowded that a special railway, the Necropolis line, shunted corpses from a local station to graveyards south of the city.
This is like, super morbid (especially in current pandemic times), but also, like, kinda fascinating. In a morbid way.
“Life is never easy,” I told him. “There are different kinds of difficult, and one must choose between them.“
“Some lives are considerably easier than others, inspector.“
“Perhaps. Such things are never discernible from the outside, however. Only the one living the life can judge.”
― Hercule Poirot's Silent Night
“Some lives are considerably easier than others, inspector.“
“Perhaps. Such things are never discernible from the outside, however. Only the one living the life can judge.”
― Hercule Poirot's Silent Night
“Of course, punishment is important,’ snaps Petit, feeling nettle once more. ‘ it is the contract that the criminal makes with society - he commits an act against the individual, which is the same as to commit and act against society, and in return, he knows he must receive punishment.”
― Mister Memory
― Mister Memory
“Which is more important, I wonder: not to be lonely, or to live the life you've chosen for yourself.”
― There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
― There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
“It’s the end of the world. That’s what it is. At least, it’s the end of the century. Here we are, months away from a new era, and what do we find? We have been cheated. Weren’t we promised everything? That fancy exhibition ten years ago, and now they will have another one, and what do we see? The electric light, the wonders of machinery, the wonders of science, technology and medicine, where are these things for the likes of you and me? When I retire I will be lucky to make ends meet. No motor cars for me, no luxuries. And here we are, the end of the century coming, and we have been cheated. That is what underlies this angst, my boy; it is anger and fear. Anger at what we do not have and fear that when the clock strikes twelve on the 31st of December, we will find that, lo and behold, we are no better off than we were in the previous century. Anger and fear, my boy. Anger and fear.”
― Mister Memory
― Mister Memory
S’s 2025 Year in Books
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