Kwohts

I'm bad at writing down quotes. I absorb info rapidly and don't like to pause. A while ago, a descriptive passage mentioned "pincushions of moss". Delightful metaphor. I think it was in a spy story.

Heard an interviewer - Richard Fidler? - refer to the current "international democratic recession". V. sad but v. apt.

When I worked with computer programmers, they'd talk about magic numbers. Turns out tradies sorta-kinda have an equivalent: "assisted fit". Funny.

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over the span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians, whose aesthetic you recognise the moment you enter these galleries" - from the memoir "All The Beauty In The World" by Patrick Bringley.

Author Susanna Clarke telling "SFX" magazine of her love for the historical YA fiction of old: "I wanted to stand in a frozen winter landscape, at sunset, with a horse, on the verge of doing something noble and tragic."

Harry Sullivan: "Doctor, what do you think?"
The Doc: "Highly intelligent thoughts, mainly."

I'll work on it...