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Mahalia Geary (a.k.a. Fulana/Marya/Byela Mar)
Corwi is Borlú’s partner in the policzai, and she is also working on the case of Mahalia’s murder. She is highly intelligent, courageous, and has impressive skills that Borlú desperately needs, including computer skills. Like Borlú, she is deeply dedicated to her job, and she willingly puts herself into extremely risky situations many times in her pursuit of justice. Corwi also helps Borlú track down David Bowden after the truth about Orciny comes out.
Lizybet Corwi Quotes in The City & the City
The The City & the City quotes below are all either spoken by Lizybet Corwi or refer to Lizybet Corwi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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A political irony. Those most dedicated to the perforation of the boundary between Besźel and Ul Qoma had to observe it most carefully. If I or one of my friends were to have a moment’s failure of unseeing (and who did not do that? Who failed to fail to see, sometimes?), so long as it was not flaunted or indulged in, we should not be in danger. If I were to glance a second or two on some attractive passerby in Ul Qoma, if I were to silently enjoy the skyline of the two cities together, be irritated by the noise of an Ul Qoman train, I would not be taken.
Here, though, at this building not just my colleagues but the powers of Breach were always wrathful and as Old Testament as they had the powers and right to be. That terrible presence might appear and disappear a unificationist for even a somatic breach, a startled jump at a misfiring Ul Qoma car.
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Lizybet Corwi Quotes in The City & the City
The The City & the City quotes below are all either spoken by Lizybet Corwi or refer to Lizybet Corwi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5
Quotes
A political irony. Those most dedicated to the perforation of the boundary between Besźel and Ul Qoma had to observe it most carefully. If I or one of my friends were to have a moment’s failure of unseeing (and who did not do that? Who failed to fail to see, sometimes?), so long as it was not flaunted or indulged in, we should not be in danger. If I were to glance a second or two on some attractive passerby in Ul Qoma, if I were to silently enjoy the skyline of the two cities together, be irritated by the noise of an Ul Qoman train, I would not be taken.
Here, though, at this building not just my colleagues but the powers of Breach were always wrathful and as Old Testament as they had the powers and right to be. That terrible presence might appear and disappear a unificationist for even a somatic breach, a startled jump at a misfiring Ul Qoma car.
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