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Even the most confusing thought can be organised when written in a notebook.

But since entering the 20th century, the concept of information has become very important. Information will become very powerful, changing future politics, economics, and cultural patterns from the ground up. Whoever holds and controls information will rule the world.

Then I’ll form a pro-Indian party, I’ll take all these people to the coast to vote, and that’ll be the start of the new Tupac Amaru revolution, the American Indian revolution!

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

“His excitement was close to pain and sharpened by the pressure of contradictions: she was familiar like a sister, she was exotic like a lover; he had always known her, he knew nothing about her”

“They would be alone together soon, with more contradictions - hilarity and sensuousness, desire and fear at their recklessness...”

“...Todmorden is made up of two basic words: ‘tod’ and ‘mord’. Tod means Death in German. And mord means Murder. I’m not sure about you, but spending the day in a secluded castle in a town called Deathmurder doesn’t sound like the ideal weekend break to me...”

“...there was nothing for him to do but wait; and oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about,...”

Strangely accurate during these times of Convid uncertainty.

‘And Yes is the most positive word you can say. So we go from the double-negative ‘No To War’ to the double-positive ‘Yes To Peace, and you can see how much better that sounds’

Such an easy book to read, but a three year skirmish it has become to turn each page, and in conclusion my bookmark seems to correlate with the same description, as my interest. Missing.

“...and I felt suffocated as he rolled over me. I rolled over him. We rolled over me. They rolled over him. We rolled over us.”

“...I sat quite still in my old car, old and frail, at the end of my journey, at my gray goal, finis, my friends, finis, my fiends.”

830 miles.

'Because you think I am drunk? D'Artagnan, remember this! My ideas are never so clear as when I have had plenty of wine.' It's quotes like this that makes believe I am unintentionally living the life of a modern day Musketeer.

'For the teenage Dizzee, Canary Wharf's blinking white top-light held the potential for an alien getaway, but it was also perhaps east London's version of the green light at the end of the dock in The Great Gatsbg, a symbol of "the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us", the tantalizing dream of escape into a brighter tomorrow'

d'Artagnan awakened Planchet, the reader must not suppose it was night, or that day was hardly come. No, it had just struck four. Planchet, two hours before, had asked his master for some dinner, and he had answered him with the proverb, "He who sleeps, dines." And Planchet dined by sleeping.

If the next 3/4 of the book is as exciting as the premier quarter, I shall be a happy man.

Get into the juicy part of the story now! Literally...ahem. Van Helsing and the rest are such interesting characters and the language used throughout is making this a very enjoyable read.