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John D. MacDonald, The Dreadful Lemon Sky

In diesem Band befand sich die Szene, die ich gesucht hatte (in der McGee einem gierigen Bestattungsunternehmer im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes einen Strich durch die Rechnung macht) und auch der Rest der Story kam beim lesen wieder und war wie zu Erwarten der reinste Genuß. Ich denke, alle noch folgenden Bände werde ich nicht lesen, aber vielleicht noch zwei oder drei.
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We are never the best judges of what is meaningful and what is trivial in our lives, I guess. The accidents of time and place change the script, and later we say it happened on purpose.
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I whapped a mosquito which tasted the side of my neck and rolled him into a tiny moist goblet of meat and dropped him out of his life onto the deck. In many ways the Hindu is right. All life in all forms is so terribly transient there is an innocence about all acts and functions of life. Death, icy and irrevocable, is the genuine definition of reality. In my unthinking reflex I was doubtless improving the mosquito breed. If, over a millennium, man whapped every side-of-the-neck-biter, maybe the mosquito would bite only neck napes.
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Guilt is the most merciless disease of man. It stains all the other areas of living. It darkens all the skies.
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(John D. MacDonald, The Dreadful Lemon Sky, 1974)