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For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.
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He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.
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Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education.
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The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
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I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.
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My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard.
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Street towards Covent Garden. There was
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Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.
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Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
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Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
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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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Vikings," said Lesley. "Precisely," said Nightingale. "Bloodthirsty, but surprisingly erudite in a limited fashion." Well
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NIGHTINGALE AND I did what all good coppers do when faced with a spare moment in the middle of the day - we went looking for a pub.
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This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
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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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I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers.
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You have to call me Master." "Master?" "That's the tradition," said Nightingale. I said the word in my head and it kept on coming out massa.
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As Conan the Barbarian famously said, That which does not kill us does not kill us.
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I saw a dark void under the platform and had just enough time to think: Fuck me he's a earthbender.
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Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.
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Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said.
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her hair was piled up under a broad-brimmed
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I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting"."Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing? — Ben Aaronovitch
It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater,
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Carnivorous unicorns, I thought.
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It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
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A major investigation, once it gets underway, is as exciting as watching reruns of Big Brother, although possibly involving less sex and violence.
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The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.
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The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide.
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For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
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Don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.
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It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.
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The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.
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History happens," said the Doctor. "Even when I'm not around.""Only by accident," said Kadiatu... — Ben Aaronovitch
Dr Walid walked me past the security at reception and introduced me to today's dead body.
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It's strictly constables, sergeants, and lunatics. We'll keep the kettle on for you.
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In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.
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So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear. So
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Zach looked at Carey in consternation, obviously wondering if we were using the rare good cop/loony cop interrogation technique.
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The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions. That
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The Fire Brigade recognise only two kinds of people at a fire, victims and obstacles, and if you don't want to be either it's best to stay back.
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Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative.
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With a grunt he levered himself to his feet, causing the chair to bang against the bookcase behind him and set the various objet d'bollocks rattling.
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Pictures of Cheam adorn the walls of planning offices of every Home County to serve as an awful warning.
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First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.
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insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about
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Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything.
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A romantic," said Nightingale much, much later. "The most dangerous people on Earth.
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The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
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There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.
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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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There's more to life than just London," said Nightingale."People keep saying that," I said. "But I've never actually seen any proof. — Ben Aaronovitch
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.
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I left in a hurry before he could change his mind, but I want to make it clear that at no point did I break into a skip
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That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion.
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Ghosts, I was thinking, memories - I wasn't sure there was a difference.
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Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge," said Stephanopoulos. "He was a student at St. Martins College.
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I'd found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.
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One of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there's no point looking for it.
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Zap,' I said. 'That's the technical term for it, is it? What do you call someone who's been zapped?''Mr. Crispy,' said Kumar. — Ben Aaronovitch
Whatever you see, he'd said, take as long a look as you need to get used to it, to accept it, and then move on as if nothing has changed.
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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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Keep breathing,' I said. 'It's a habit you don't want to break.
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
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The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.
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I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.
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Jazz vampires,' said Stephanopoulos.'I wish I hadn't started calling them that,' I said. — Ben Aaronovitch
He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.
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You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe.
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Oh shit, I thought, if this isn't the Low King of the Dwarves then I'm the President of the Cricklewood Branch of the Women's Institute.
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Officially she was there to liaise with me on the case, but really she was there for the wide-screen TV, takeaways and the unresolved sexual tension.
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He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking ... transparent.
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This is your brain on magic.
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I, Anna Maria de Burgh Coppinger Isis solemnly swear on
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