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Inside, the mortuary was much the same as the rest of the hospital, only with fewer people complaining about the state of the NHS.
You can’t just deposit a body at the morgue.
‘It’s always gratifying to see senior officers adopting a forward-looking posture in their vertical relationships,’
In his introduction to The Role of Magic in Inducing Pseudo-Lamarckian Inheritance, he argues that exposure to magic could induce changes in an organism which could then be inherited by its offspring. Amongst modern biologists, this sort of thing is known as ‘soft inheritance’ and, if espoused, causes them to point and laugh. It sounded plausible, but unfortunately before he could complete the part of his book where he proved his theory, Wolfe was killed by a shark while taking the waters off Sidmouth.
‘No hardware connections, no USB ports, three-inch floppy disks that they don’t make any more – this is security through obsolescence.
My dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.
He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him – that’s the London way.
For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
Five flights of stairs hadn’t improved her mood, and she emerged onto the roof like an overdue tax demand.
