Thursday 10 September 2009

i want to see some blood

said a small girl on the train the other day. I didn't hear the context.

Here's a nice bit of Alexander McCall Smith. Scotland Street = super relaxing, in a good way. He's wise and morally interesting, and deceptively lucid. Matthew has seen some neat schoolchildren in Western Australia:
'It's very nice,' said Matthew. He felt a momentary guilt, embarrassment perhaps, that sh ehsould think such an old-fashioned thought, but it passed. There was nothing wrong, he reminded himself, in appreciating a bourgeois paradise when every other sort of paradise on offer had proved to be exactly the opposite of what paradise should be.

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