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I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.

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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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