Ben Aaronovitch - Broken Homes (2013)

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In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

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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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It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

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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, 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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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

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