Everyman Play Quotes

“To Lord Peter Wimsey, the few weeks of his life spent in unraveling the Problem of the Iron Staircase possessed an odd dreamlike quality, noticeable at the time and still more insistent in retrospect. The very work that engaged him--or, rather the shadowy simulacrum of himself that signed itself on every morning in the name of Death Bredon--wafted him into a sphere of dim platonic archetypes, bearing a scarcely recognizable relationship to anything in the living world. Here those strange entities, the Thrifty Housewife, the Man of Discrimination, the Keen Buyer and the Good Judge, for ever young, for ever handsome, for ever virtuous, economical and inquisitive, moved to and fro upon their complicated orbits....”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise