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“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
He could recognize it as Hexagram Fifteen. Ch’ien. Modesty. Ah. The
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Can you believe he’s still alive, in a bungalow, in Bournemouth? I’ve been to visit him, made a few things happen – ectoplasm, electrical failures, horrible noises in the night. He’s so stupid he doesn’t notice. He’ll be dead soon and then I’ll make his life hell.’
Jeanette Winterson • Night Side of the River
He enters the forest.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
But he sat in an agony of fear lest Raffles should be overheard in his loud and plain references to past facts – lest Mrs Bulstrode should be even tempted to listen at the door. How could he hinder her, how betray his terror by opening the door to detect her? She was a woman of honest direct habits, and little likely to take so low a course in orde
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Samson Syndrome. It was the spy’s equivalent of the mid-life crisis. The most famous case was the MI5 officer Michael Bettaney who was convicted of spying for the KGB in the eighties. The cause? Not buying a train ticket. Because he was caught fare-dodging, Bettaney knew he would fail his next security review; failing the review would lead to his d
... See moreMatthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
