What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

Why should things be easy to understand?

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.