the anti-heroine of an era of bathtub gin, organized crime, and jazz, clouded in the smoke of fired guns and cigarettes.
“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible.
But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.”

— Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!


@темы: with serpents for arms the lovers are the hydra of the tale