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Death By The Salesman: A Tale Of True Crime

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“Dos explosiones iniciaron la masacre. Antonio disparó de izquierda a derecha contra la gente, que pasó del desconcierto a un pánico generalizado con los primeros gritos que se iban mezclando con el sonido de las balas. Todos tratan de correr, pero debido a la oscuridad, chocan torpemente entre ellos, unos simplemente se tiran al piso y se cubren con sus manos, otros tantos mueren abatidos”

“Wendell looked at the faerie stone in his hand, shrugged, and smashed it against the floor. Out burst a flock of parrots. The birds shrieked and squawked, and the sheerie were momentarily distracted--- not afraid, they lunged at them like cats. Each parrot seemed to be carrying a tropical flower in its beak. Wendell hurled another stone. When it smashed, glittering banners unfurled upon the museum walls, covered in the faerie script. The ceiling was suddenly painted in frescoes of Folk lounging in forest pools, surrounded by green foliage. Vases of unfamiliar flowers appeared on every surface next to bottles of wine in ice buckets, and the air filled with the muffled sound of violins, as if drifting in from the next room.”

“Visitors entering the auditorium will notice a rainbow in the centre of the eastern gable, between two arches. This arcs above a portrait of Gray's Bella Baxter from his novel Poor Things (Gray 1992), here renamed Bella Caledonia, a Scottish heroine depicyed with tartan draped over her arm, holding a thistle. The words 'LET US FLOURISH BY TELLING THE TRUTH' accompany her. But that textual message, adapted from 'Let Glasgow Flourish', the motto on Glasgow's coat of arms, is one of multiple instructions.”