The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (YA ed.)

…people are different from animals because they can have pictures on the screens in their heads of things which they are not looking at. They can have pictures of someone in another room. Or they can have a picture of what is going to happen tomorrow. Or they can have pictures of themselves as an astronaut.

And then:

  1. City Of Glass I say what they say because I know nothing. There was this. Dark. Very dark. As dark as very dark....
  2. Television The television was showing the same American series we ourselves were watching in the Schweinfurth’s living room, such that, as...
  3. Night Mail This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters...
  4. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller So, then, you noticed in a newspaper that If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller had appeared, the new book...
  5. Immortality every day we are stabbed by thousands of looks, but this is not enough: in the end one single stare...
  6. Time Keeping Time In advertising terms, I would always be classed as the ‘before’ rather than ‘after’, whether before cosmetic surgery, low-fat biscuits...

09. December 2008 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Mark Haddon originally written in 2004

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