Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Diane Romanello Windsong painting

Diane Romanello Windsong paintingDiego Rivera The Flower Seller paintingGustav Klimt The Music paintingGustav Klimt The Friends painting
Gumshoe duty in Robbery/Homicide might be more dangerous than a a greengrocerin convenience stores. If you wanted the thrill of being shot at on a regular basis, the Gang Activities Section, the Narcotics Division, and certainly the Strategic Weapons and Tactics teams were better bets than cleaning up after murderers.Even just staying in uniform promised more violence than hitting the streetsto the rule. People shot at him with regularity.He professed surprise not at the frequency with which bullets were directed at him, but at the fact that the shooters were people who didn’t know him personally. “Being a friend of mine,” he once said, “you’d think it would be the other way around, wouldn’t you?”Hazard’s uncanny attraction for high-velocity projectiles wasn’t a consequence of either recklessness or poor investigative technique. He was a careful, first-rate detective.In Ethan’s experience, the universe didn’t always operate like the clockwork mechanism of cause and effect that the scientists so confidently described. Anomalies abounded. Deviations from the common rule, strange conditions, incongruities.You could make yourself a little crazy, even according to some this-because-that system of logic. Occasionally you had to accept the inexplicable.Hazard didn’t choose his cases. Like other detectives, he fielded what fate threw at him. For reasons known only to the secret master of the universe, he caught more investigations involving perps

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