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“A lot of good that will do anyone. Any idea who it was?” More curious than angry. In fact not angry at all. She’d known he wouldn’t be. People fascinate him, in some peculiarly abstract way: the things they do, though not so much why they do them.
People had time, in those days. The system was collapsing under its own weight, but everyone had a job, often a pointless one, very badly paid, but one could eat. People valued friendships, talked endlessly, ate and drank. For many people it was like the life of a student. A life of the spirit.
