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A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

Ben Aaronovitch

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it’s your safest bet.
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Advice Police Talking
Somebody doesn’t know they’re not in Kansas anymore,’ said Stephanopoulos.
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Kansas Knows Said
The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
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Sound Study Victim
The worst part is staying in the room after you’ve broken the news, so that you’re forced to be there when someone’s life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn’t bother them – such people are not to be trusted.
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Broken Disintegrate News People Stay Worst
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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Giving Important Name
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
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East Potatoe
The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you’ve generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life – like drinking and sleeping, and if you’re lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.
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Drinking End Home Important Lucky Some Truth
When you’re a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don’t want to know.
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Adults Boys Effort
Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I’m not a country person. I don’t like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.
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Country Mean Pig
The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.
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Country Jumping Possible Sport Wrestling
That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.
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Extra Morning Next Time
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
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Clever Doctors People
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata.
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Expression Magic Tree Years
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It’s not your garden, it’s not a park – it’s a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer’s plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.
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Garden Park Tree
And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.
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Almost Always Between Consequences Start Unless
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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Answers Ignored Question

A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

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A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

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