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Susman sees these kinds of details as iron shavings on a board, and the crime is the hidden magnet. Sooner or later, enough of the pieces will point in the right direction.
So you need to be clever and cautious with the small things; the things less intuitive cops miss. You owe it to the victim to notice them; to paint the invisible, visible, and in doing so, if you’re lucky, you’ll paint the victim visible, too.
you need to search for the log in your own eye before complaining about the splinter in ours.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Maybe old Tim had a point, ey? I mean, you may be a man-hating feminazi and believe that the world is a better place now with women in the working world but I can tell you that from my personal experience life was a lot more fun in the old days, when there was a race to space and women knew their place.
Wow...more extreme than a typical chauvinist
You see how fine the line is between alive and kicking, to kicking the bucket. It’s a whisper, a wrinkle, a single barb of a feather.
But corruption is a hungry cancer in these parts: virulent, and violent. It spreads like greasy black ink: staining and chafing until it devours the goodness in even the most honourable men.
The arrogant Few can only hold down the ardent Many for so long before there is thunder.
The world is painted grey. We got our justice. They got their equality. We are them and they are us. The country is truly colour-blind.
Only the most striking parts of your existence are remembered, which means that you don’t remember the majority of your life. You have, roughly, the three seconds of your present moment, plus a (mostly inaccurate, and decaying) memory of around one percent of your past, and that’s it. The rest fades away.
Sounds about right
booze and brain manipulation is seldom a good idea.
The brain abhors a vacuum, and you no longer have that thing to reach for. Yes, you reach for bad memories, even though the experience is unpleasant. It’s like the compulsion to probe a sore tooth with a tongue: it’s difficult to just leave the pain alone.
We all somehow always search for the bad memories
