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I find, with time, that this City begins to resemble London more and more: a crime occurs, but the public interest wanes, and the true horrors of the place fall by the wayside and are eventually forgotten entirely ( Read more... )

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((Various noises in the background--sounds of the streets. A window is open. But there are also noises nearer by: throughout this recording, it sounds as though someone is collecting things: hat, coat, boots, tools, implements, such needful things as will be needed for needs ahead.))It is the sign of an orderly society, a ( Read more... )

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((Violin music: a flurry of various tunes, sometimes complete, sometimes not. Just someone toying with a violin, playing pretty pieces.))

((But it stops abruptly.))Watson, you have observed, I trust, the recent peculiarities which have struck the City. These are, as you have no doubt surmised, the famed 'curses' of the ( Read more... )

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How very droll. How very droll and very inconveniencing. Oh yes, I remember: this has been the subject of many a joke, none of which were amusing either then or now. If my old friend were here, likely he'd invent an entire ( Read more... )

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((A long silence broken only by the sound of footsteps of the City in the background. Then, a man's voice, English accented, distinctive, and perhaps it is familiar. He's found the Network device there on the bench beside him and, after a bit of fumbling and trying to remember the details, has managed to turn it on again ( Read more... )

Those who are students of my theories will note my longstanding affirmation that it is the country, and not the city, wherein the worst crimes occur. The solitary farmhouse, the distance from village to village, the isolation of all those who live there, and the torments that such distance and isolation cause all have proven, again and again, that ( Read more... )

A murder was announced on the Network some days ago. Upon my investigation, the murdered and the murderer were precisely as explained ( Read more... )

This is not the sort of situation to which I like to awaken. The snow and the cold are small matters, very small matters, but the rest requires some greater consideration ( Read more... )

A remarkable sea of humanity is down below in the streets today. There is no better metaphor for it: it is a teeming sea of humanity--and perhaps inhumanity ( Read more... )