“By all means let us consult your needs! So long as they overlap precisely with my needs, I’m sure we can accommodate them.”

—  Adam Roberts, book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 3, Chapter 9, “Solving the Mystery” (p. 347).
Jack Glass (2012)

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