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Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people.
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Curiosity is a terrible inducement.
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Their work was undercover--yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.
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legendary. 'Oh no!
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Mathematics is a suspicious activity. All those hypotenuse drawings must be plans for assassination attempts. Algebra is treacherous code. When did you ever meet a student of infinitesimal calculus who didn't harbour rabid ambitions to rule the world? And anyone who tells you Archimedes was killed at the capture of Syracuse by a soldier who didn't know who he was, is ignorant of how military forces work. There will have been a secret order:..
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the land.
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By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antidote except moonbeams, and he would identify himself by etching a Greek letter onto the foreheads of all his victims as they twitched and gasped their last. The Omega Killer had been born, and it was my fault.
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