“He rubbed a piece of alum on the back of the neck. He finished in silence.”
In Evil Hour - Gabriel García Márquez
Wow. That is just bleak.
“On some stations officers, if they are married, live out.”
The Last Enemy - Richard Hillary.
I don’t even know what to make of that but either way it doesn’t bode well. Unless I become an officer. That’d be cool.
“The Scots are very similar to the Irish in language, custom and character, and are a courageous people, proud when confronting their enemies, who would rather die than be in servitude and say that it is a disgrace to die in one’s bed, whereas it is a great honour to die killing one’s enemies.”
- Barthélemy l’Anglais, Proprietaire des Choses, quoted in Scotland and the Low Countries, 1124-1994.
Prolonged and belligerent. Sounds like how I do it (ladies).
(Source: elvatochingon)
