![]() … his presence was like a lead weight on a rubber sheet. … people lower their voices in the presence of large sums of money. It would be hard to imagine an uglier building that hadn’t won a major architectural award. What harm can it do to find out? It’s a question that has left bruises down the centuries, even more that ‘It can’t hurt if I only take one’ and ‘It’s all right if you only do it standing up.’ (MM) He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like ‘core values’ at him with impunity. And they were dull, which is part of the reason they were meetings. ‘… this may well have been a case where chilly logic should have been replaced by the common sense of, perhaps, the average chicken.’ (MM) The only thing he hadn’t done was hornswoggle, and that was only because he hadn’t found out how to. ![]() ![]() … luck came to those who left a space for it – (MM)Īll the way to Genua there were people who’d been duped, fooled, swindled and cheated by that face. There are times when ‘It does not get any better than this’ does not spring to mind. …nervousness runs through pigeons faster than a streaker through a convent … (MM) ![]()
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