The box didn't appear to be hampered in any way by the ornamental rug draped roguishly over it, nor by the thief hanging by one arm from the lid. It was, in a very real sense, a dead weight. Further along the lid were the remains of two fingers, owner unknown.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

There may be no book on the mothers of poets, or artists in general, but it might one day be written and would be, I think, an enlightening read.

Written By Alexander McCall Smith

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