rain outside
May. 10th, 2012 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensIt was a beautiful sunny morning. A pity that it was a grey afternoon and a rainy evening. The weather is still playing silly buggers, though at least it's a bit milder now.
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It is my weakness, it has always been my weakness, to desire to show off. That weakness, Hastings could never understand. But indeed it is very necessary for a man of my abilities to admire himself -- and for that one needs stimulation from outside. I cannot, truly I cannot, sit in a chair all day reflecting how truly admirable I am.
-- Poirot, in Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Agatha Christie
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It is my weakness, it has always been my weakness, to desire to show off. That weakness, Hastings could never understand. But indeed it is very necessary for a man of my abilities to admire himself -- and for that one needs stimulation from outside. I cannot, truly I cannot, sit in a chair all day reflecting how truly admirable I am.
-- Poirot, in Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Agatha Christie
