When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.
Ben AaronovitchMots clés boyhood intergenerational-relations
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.
Ben AaronovitchCarved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
Ben AaronovitchI gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting".
"Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
Mots clés peter-grant
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.
Ben AaronovitchMots clés peter-grant
Are they really gods?"
"I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace - that makes them a police matter.
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.
Ben Aaronovitch...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
Ben AaronovitchYou put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house.
"Just a small one," said Nightingale.
"So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?"
"A wizard."
"Like Harry Potter?"
Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter."
"In what way?"
"I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.
Mots clés harry-potter-reference
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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