You're a cop aren't you?
A private detective.
Isn't that the same thing?
The cops guarantee order. All I do is uncover disorder.
Thanks, Pepe. You've put an extra night into my life. I would have spent it just sleeping like an ox, but I've lived it instead. I'm grateful.
Manuel Vázquez MontalbánTags: sleep night gratitude ox
As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.
Manuel Vázquez MontalbánTags: tragedy fruit cake dessert frivolity
The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.
Manuel Vázquez MontalbánTags: wife ruin restaurant gambling baccarat fountain-pen
To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.
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