Sublime

If it ended up seeming it could be of interest, I'd say, ‘Look, I don't expect you to write about it. I don't expect you to do anything with it, but I have a bunch of review copies and I'd be happy to send you a copy. I think this ten page chapter would be of interest possibly. The other stuff, who knows?’ Then I spent my money mailing these things

though there was no compelling need to do so.

tortured. Another came from across the corridor, the same

a large fire had broken out in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport.