Beastly Things (Commissario Brunetti, #21)
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Read between March 20 - April 16, 2023
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Lombroso’s vile book
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‘In the presence of a trough, it is difficult not to oink,’
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Brunetti allowed a few moments to pass so that they might again enjoy the experience of having filled with rich meaning the spaces between their words.
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anticipatory weariness,
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their exchanges of personal information were usually cushioned by irony or masked by indirection.
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calamari in umido
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finocchio al forno
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crostata di f...
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‘raptus di gelosia’,
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Dottor Andrea Nava,
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the mixture of rage and despair that was the only honest emotion left to the citizenry,
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a particularly winsome pig wearing a Father Christmas hat.
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a man who had seen people laugh, ‘and thought he knew how to do it’.
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Fisherman’s Friend,
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‘Città aperta,’
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the technique of the long silence,