“My discovery of the explosive potentialities of potassium chlorate and sulphur, when hit by a hammer, has started a craze that has spread all over _______________”
Colin Wilson – Voyage to a Beginning 1969
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Fishing hairdressers
Being a good walker, he was as fond of long walks as hairdressers are of fishing.
Colette – The Tender Shoot
Sidon-Gabrielle Colette
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Life’s Ironies
Jesua was often mistaken for me in the village, because she never grew breasts, and began to shave before I did. She died of consumption when she was twenty-two, a virgin to the end and secretly in love with a sanctimonious priest who, when he met her in the street, always said, “Hello Fermin, you’re becoming quite a dashing young man.” Life’s ironies.
– Fermin Romero de Torres in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon: Chapter 26
