litterär adventskalender, lucka 11

A1: Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A2: "'Of course the liaison was suspected. Perhaps you girls knew about it. You, Sandy, had a faint idea... but nobody could prove what was between Gordon Lowther and myself. It was never proved. It was not on those grounds that I was betrayed. I should like to know who betrayed me. It is incredible that it should have been one of my own girls. I often wonder if it was poor Mary. Perhaps I should have been nicer to Mary. Well, it was tragic about Mary, I pictured that fire, that poor girl. I can't see how Mary could have betrayed me, though.'"

A3: Har blivit film med Maggie Smith i huvudrollen.


B1: En halmgris stirrar in i mina ögon.

B2: "Med långa mästerkniven högg han i sitt offer och sprang sedan snabbt ifrån brottsplatsen, ner mot kajorna där en motorbåt stod förtöjd. Elias var redan på plats och snart lämnade de stadsbilden bakom sig. Hur snabbt skedde inte allt detta. I ena stunden fullt aktiv och lycklig, i nästa ett hjälplöst och nedstucket offer. Så nyligen var hon nedstucken att blod fortfarande rann i rännilarna. Den långa mästerkniven släpptes ner i havet någonstans. Elias styrde bortåt."