이야기가 왜이리 올드한가했더니 1938년 작품이구나. 남극에 살고 있는 펭권을 미국에 선물로 보내고 펭귄 공연으로 돈을 벌고(물론 펭귄을 먹이기 위한 거지만) 북극 탐험가들 심심하지 말라고 펭귄을 북극에 데려간다니요. 펭귄에 미친 대책없는 남편 뒤치다꺼리하는 부인도 그렇고요.
‘Three women were killed here,‘ I said. ‘And the perpis running around free as a bird.‘‘We have no jurisdiction.‘‘Remember that picture in Emmeline McClatchy‘s parlour? Martin Luther King? He said all that needs tohappen for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing.‘‘I‘m a military cop, not a good man.‘‘He also said the day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.‘‘That stuff is way above my pay grade.‘‘He also said that injustice anywhere is a threat tojustice everywhere.‘‘What do you want me to do?‘‘I want you to stay here,‘ I said. ‘One more day.‘Then I finished my pie and went looking for Eliza-beth Deveraux again. - P437
It was March in Mississippi and there were enough new leaves on the trees to deny me a clear view of thesky. So I navigated by guesswork. Or dead reckoning, assome people prefer to call it. Which is hard to do, in aforest. Most right-handed people end up walking widecounterclockwise circles, because most right-handedpeople have left legs fractionally shorter than their right legs. Basic biology and geometry. I avoided thatparticular peril by stepping to the right of every tenthtree I came to, whether I thought I needed to or not. - P299
She said, ‘I agree. It‘s time to shake something loose.If you want to know if the stove is hot, sometimes theonly way to find out is to touch it.‘‘You must have been a pretty good cop.‘‘I still am a pretty good cop.‘ - P330