“Some mysteries are better off with their throats slit.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 3 (p. 95)
“His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.”
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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Variant: Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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