Hargrove the Marxist Detective and the Adventure of the HMS Hoobe-Entwhistle
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Chapter 4 - To Sleep, Perchance To Dream

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all." - Heinrich Heine

 A horribly distant meandering grey haze blinked into relative focus; dimmed.   A face swam into view, a fat bloated circus mirror face with a weird swimming raised eyebrow; then the pain hit and Hargrove’s brain retreated quickly.  

“Well,” it thought firmly, in that brief eternity of consciousness, “socio-political revolution is clearly a physical expression of change.  It deals directly with the fruit of the proletariat and their relationships, essentially implying that the petty bourgeoisie concept of ‘thinking’ about these things is irrelevant.” 

A blisteringly painful pause.  “Ah, thank god, then,” and the blackness resumed its soothing comforts.

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