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The War was over, except for some one like Mrs. Foxcroft at the Embassy last night, eating her heart out because that nice boy was killed and now the old Manor House must go to a cousin; or Lady Bexborough who opened a bazaar, they said, with the telegram in her hand, John, her favorite, killed; but it was over; thank Heaven—over. —Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
The War was over, however her war against pneumonia was far from over since she was having shortness of breath whenever she rushed up the street to their house following the flurry of skirts her friends wearing, nor she would be going top back to school after losing a year at the hospital, her mother said otherwise but Nihal thought it would be shameful to join younger students in her former school; no the war wasn’t over, it just changed shape.
“When he landed the police department hovercar on the roof of the Rosen Association Building in Seattle, he found a young woman waiting for him. Black-haired and slender, wearing the new huge dust-filtering glasses, she approached his car, her hands deep in the pockets of her brightly striped long coat.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“If being in revolt against a corrupt society constitutes being immature, then Philip Marlowe is extremely immature” (Chandler, 1951).”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
“In 1904, Californian journalist Lincoln Steffens published an exposé entitled The Shame of the Cities. Steffens wrote that “politics is business. In America politics is an arm of business and the aim of business is to make money without care for the law, because politics, controlled by business, can change or buy the law. Politics is interested in profit, not municipal prosperity or civic pride. The spirit of graft and lawlessness is the American spirit.”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
“he picked up his desk vidphone and said to Miss Marsten, “Get me the Happy Dog Pet Shop on Sutter Street.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“There is absolutely no way for a man of this age to acquire a decent affluence in life without to some degree corrupting himself, without accepting the cold, clear fact that success is always and everywhere a racket.”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
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