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[N]othing could be deduced, except that reality was improbable.

Georges Simenon (1931)



Some people’s universe consists of only a few streets ….

Georges Simenon (1951)



Their characters lived in a world in which, long before the atom bomb, civilization had created the machinery for its own destruction ….

Raymond Chandler (1950)