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Full Dark House--notes

Police department:  A violent place in which to discover a purpose. . . a good place to forge a friendship

Four thousand people killed in blackout accidents in the first months of WWII . . . No weather forecasts issued in Britain--Germans attack on clear nights.  Spies would inform them . . . Marks and company 84 Charing Cross Road bookstore . . . Theatre follows a script, the outside world full of missed lines, cues, entrances . . .  London scuffed by the dead hand of globalization . . . Our job is to make sure they don't get used to murder . . . Natural singers (Janis Joplin, for example) are "destructive, dangerous," while technical singers "never bared their souls."  . . . Sciatic notch -- notch on pelvis which can be used to determine sex of skelteton. . . cicatrized--form a scar after an injury . . . Valiant as the name of a flashlight . . . "the closer you are to death, the more attached you become to life."  . . . The book finishes with Bryant's song of love to the city:  "The city is my theatre. I never want to leave it."

Wonderful ending.

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