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“The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.”
“Who did the council fight?""It split in two and fought itself.""That's suicide!""No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent wa...”
“Metaforen r ett av tankens vsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mrker. Men denna belysning blir ibland s klar att den blndar istllet fr avsljar.”
“Glasgow is a magnificent city, said McAlpin. Why do we hardly ever notice that? Because nobody imagines living herethink of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first tim...”
“He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like half-solid paste. All the heads in his angle of vision seemed irregular lumps, like potatoes but ...”
“Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.”
“Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?” “Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the firs...”