"Murder is a man thing"

reading Night Train, Martin Amis. suponho que deve ser desconfortável, talvez não para a editora, o sistema implacável e matemático de notas que se fazem a uma obra. neste caso a média deve dar B, com C- ao final e ao exagero linguístico. um policial é um policial. (e aqui)

olha a "minha" citação no vortex... gostei de conhecer o vortex, que no mundo escolheu a mesma frase do que eu. afinal no mundo fica em lisboa e tem menos 6 anos. gostei das imagens, muito deste tempo. e agora a citação do Night Train.

"Murders are men’s work. Men commit them, men clean up after them. Because men like violence. Women really don’t figure that much, except as victims, and among the bereaved, of course, and as witnesses. Ten or twelve years back, during the arms buildup toward the end of Reagan’s first term, when the nuclear thing was on everyone’s mind, it seemed to me that the ultimate homicide was coming and one day I’d get the dispatcher’s call alerting me to five billion dead: “All of them, except you and me.” In full consciousness and broad daylight men sat at desks drawing up contingency plans to murder everybody. I kept saying out loud: ” Where are the women?” Where were the women? I’ll tell you: They were witnesses. Those straggly chicks on their tents on Greenham Common, England, making the military crazy with their presence and their stares — they were witnesses. Naturally, the nuclear arrangement, the nuclear machine, was strictly men only. Murder is a man thing."

in Night Train, M. Amis