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used to have a bagpiper,’ Miller said wistfully. ‘A splendid fellow! He couldn’t play to save his life, but the noise he made was simply magnificent! Bloody dagoes shot him in a nasty little fight when we captured one of their frigates. One
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“chinless girl crept in with coffee, laid the tray on the desk like an apprentice priestess tending an altar and crept out again.”
― The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
― The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
“Either women are our equals and don’t need special treatment, or they are fragile and require opportunities to be created for them, and quotas, and so forth. Feminists seem to be promoting a most confused and illogical ideology that is much more about making trouble than anything else. And of course, they aren’t good company, these people.”
― The Cutting Place
― The Cutting Place
“the most famous obelisk in the world—”
― The Isaac Question: Templars and the Secret of the Old Testament
― The Isaac Question: Templars and the Secret of the Old Testament
“Café coffee? Not on your life!’ said the Clerk. ‘I’ve got the best coffee-maker in the West. She’s a dreadful typist but I keep her on for elevenses. How about it then?”
― The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
― The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
“didn’t like London at all, finding it a cold place to live, inhabited by cold people.”
― The American Candidate
― The American Candidate
Neil’s 2025 Year in Books
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