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The Social Etiquette of Killers
Betty's one line, one star Amazon review:
"Did not like this book due to the constant use of the "F" word. Is this really necessary?"
I can only assume Betty is one of those people more offended by the word 'fuck' than by the murder, maiming, rape, de-humanising humiliation and systematic oppression which is described in the book.
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“A couple of minutes later, and the tram started to climb up from Alfama, the streets widened, heavy traffic and Lisboetas about their normal hum-drum business. We skipped off at a busy triangle where three roads converged. A handful of shoppers and workers waited in the small yellow bus shelters, or smoked against the trees that would fringe the diamond with shade when summer came again. Taxi drivers drank coffee from paper cups and ribbed an old guy shaving in his cab. Just another normal day rolling around; no problem, and life trips along no matter who dies in the night.”
― Black Boat Dancing
― Black Boat Dancing
“Dr Silay said the poor girl should have a Sunni Muslim funeral, but he thinks the family were probably secretly Yazidi, because she said you were her Peacock Angel,� Joannes said.
“She said crazy things like that,� I said. “What’s the difference between Muslim and Yazidi?�
“Well, Muslims here refer to Yazidi as devil worshippers, but that’s too simple, a lot of cultural baggage, as always,� Joannes said. “And I’m no expert, but I think their God is much like anyone else’s. They don’t believe in an evil entity like Satan, they believe all evil is man made, but we have the choice to be good or evil. The Peacock Angel embodies all that is good, a representation of God, so she must have really respected you. And I think they have some form of reincarnation too, not sure about that. I’m sorry for my hostility towards you last night, you didn’t deserve it,� Joannes said.”
― Blood from a Shadow
“She said crazy things like that,� I said. “What’s the difference between Muslim and Yazidi?�
“Well, Muslims here refer to Yazidi as devil worshippers, but that’s too simple, a lot of cultural baggage, as always,� Joannes said. “And I’m no expert, but I think their God is much like anyone else’s. They don’t believe in an evil entity like Satan, they believe all evil is man made, but we have the choice to be good or evil. The Peacock Angel embodies all that is good, a representation of God, so she must have really respected you. And I think they have some form of reincarnation too, not sure about that. I’m sorry for my hostility towards you last night, you didn’t deserve it,� Joannes said.”
― Blood from a Shadow
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“Authority is the source of knowledge, but the reason of mankind is the norm by which all authority is judged.
Eóin, the Irish Gael AKA Johannes Scotus Eriugena (b.815 - d.877)”
― Die Stimme des Adlers
Eóin, the Irish Gael AKA Johannes Scotus Eriugena (b.815 - d.877)”
― Die Stimme des Adlers
“To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.”
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“Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
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