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A non-local in Nottingham: "I witnessed disagreements - disagreements pulsating with little histories, disagreements that sounded to an outsider like uncrackable codes - between trios of men with no a full mouth of teeth between them, then realised that some of them were not men. At the end of the day, when the shops closed, the city felt like the bottom of a glass that too many people had been drinking from."

"There is a snake in this room whose venom is so deadly that your heart would stop before you even knew he had bitten you. There is a snake who can open her moth so wide she could swallow all of us, together, in one gulp. There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive so recklesslessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize." ("The Reptile Room" - Daniel Handler)