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the Mandrill with his multicolored wonder ass that he used to bedazzle opponents.

Then he saw that in gun-colored ink on the inside of her left arm, she bore the recent history, in five digits, of her life, her family, and the world. He

Alcohol as helpful to the making of scapegoats as mud to the shaping of golems.

Wait, no, fuck cheese. Cheese is all about spores and, and, molds and all that shit. Maybe cheese is trying to colonize our brains, too. Cheese and music duking it out for control of the human nervous system.

there was a general impression of imminent catastrophe and red lipstick.

His bare shoulders were ivory-yellow and densely freckled. The freckles, like his hair and eyelashes, were the color of a Nilla wafer.

my grandmother would freak you the fuck out.

You know I have no patience with nonsense, said the Northeast's leading wholesaler of chattering windup mandibles.

Just to spite himself, because spiting himself, spiting others, spiting the world is the pastime and only patrimony of Landsman and his people.

We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us.

I said that I had heard curiosity could be harmful, in particular to cats

Her tangle of wild black curls had enacted medusa feats in zero gravity.

So you were going to shoot him," Dick says. "That's some badass fucking therapy, you guys. Damn! Strict Freudian, huh?

burned off their mutual contempt by abusing the counter help. My

What is it about this ambulatory lump of triglycerides that scares the daylights out of every prosecutor who crosses his path? [from Charlie Pierce]

Big evil. There was no doubt that the same callous malignancy moved through the blood of the shooter here.

Repeat offenders mean repeat customers and McGinley was both, as many of my clients tend to be.

That's extortion," Cerrone said. "No, asshole, that's justice.

Non… Gratum… Anum… Ro—' I can't make that out." "Rodentum," Bosch said. Sakai looked at him. "Dog Latin," Bosch told him. "Not worth a rat's ass. He was a tunnel rat. Vietnam.

Did you ever hear what J. Edgar Hoover said about justice?" she asked. "He probably said a lot, but I don't recall any of it offhand." "He said that justice is incidental to law and order. I think he was right.

Anybody who relished the idea of being a juror was blue ink all the way.

Highland Avenue in suburban Philadelphia

stopped at his partner's desk. Soto's

keep things moving but she was missing in action. He didn't want to call her cell in case she was still in session with Dr. Hinojos