Well, I never woulda guessed whodunit, though I got a lot of the subplots. I never tire of Christie's dedication to overlaying plot with plot. It's remarkable.
I love Poirot's cynical reasoning for why the murder happened right before Christmas:
"You have said that Christmas is a season of good cheer. That means, does it not, a lot of eating and drinking? It means, in fact, the...
more Well, I never woulda guessed whodunit, though I got a lot of the subplots. I never tire of Christie's dedication to overlaying plot with plot. It's remarkable.
I love Poirot's cynical reasoning for why the murder happened right before Christmas:
"You have said that Christmas is a season of good cheer. That means, does it not, a lot of eating and drinking? It means, in fact, the overeating! And with the overeating there comes the indigestion! And with the indigestion there comes the irritability!..."
"And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year assemble once more together. Now under these conditions, my friend, you must admit that there will occur a great amount of strain. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!...The result of pretending to be a more amiable, a more forgiving, a more high-minded person than one really is, has sooner or later the effect of causing one to behave as a more disagreeable, a more ruthless and an altogether more unpleasant person that is actually the case!"
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