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The Fall have moved with their times but have sounded, as Peel once suggested, ‘always different, always the same’.
“Reinaldo ‘Mostaza’ Merlo, the former River midfielder with the mustard-coloured hair, ordered that the concrete moat around the pitch be ripped out. When it was, the skeleton of the seventh cat buried by Independiente fans in 1967 was discovered. Later that year, Racing won the league,”
― Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
― Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
“Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“here we are wasting our time writing a book that will be
completely redundant within twelve months. An obsolete artefact. It's
only use being a bit of a social history that records the aspirations
of a certain strata in British society in the late eighties. Nothing
that any Sunday supplement advertisement could not already tell them.
It's obvious that in a very short space of time the Japanese will have
delivered the technology and then brought the price of it down so that
you can do the whole thing at home.”
― The Manual
completely redundant within twelve months. An obsolete artefact. It's
only use being a bit of a social history that records the aspirations
of a certain strata in British society in the late eighties. Nothing
that any Sunday supplement advertisement could not already tell them.
It's obvious that in a very short space of time the Japanese will have
delivered the technology and then brought the price of it down so that
you can do the whole thing at home.”
― The Manual
“After a pause the doctor sat up a little and asked if Tarrou had any idea of the road that one should follow to arrive at peace. ‘Yes, sympathy.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“The number of pedestrians rose and, at slack times, many people, who had been reduced to inactivity by the closing of shops and some offices, filled the streets and cafés. For the time being they were not yet unemployed, just on leave. This meant that, for example, at three in the afternoon on a sunny day Oran gave the deceptive impression of a town on holiday, in which the traffic had been halted and the shops closed to allow a public demonstration to march past, and the inhabitants had poured out into the streets to take part in the celebrations.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
Sean’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sean’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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25 friends
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