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Quotations and such-like. My real blog is The Salt-Box, but I also write for a couple of others.
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While a murder went unsolved, everything was potentially significant, packed with secrets. The observers, like paranoiacs, saw messages everywhere. Objects could regain their innocence only when the killer was caught.
— Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (p 82)