Month: September 2026
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Dodgers
“One of the greatest literary crime novels you will read in your lifetime” it says on the front of my copy of Dodgers / Bill Beverly (Harpenden : No Exit, 2016), which I doubted, for I am a cynical man, but it is even so.
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Troilus
The question what is the second-best passage in Shakespeare is like the question who was the second-best Test batsman: an interesting one. Here is Bill’s 99.94 out of 100 (loses 0.06 for the repetition of “kiss”/”kisses”): Injurious time now with a robber’s haste Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how: As many farewells…
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He seemed so nice
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face, thought Duncan, but he wasn’t right about that.
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One leading nowhere, just for show
I think the most luxurious and decadent thing it’s possible to be is a collector, of absolutely anything.
