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Last night, after dinner, they had both retired to one of the sitting rooms. She’d embroidered and Richard had read a book—some stultifyingly dull volume on novel irrigation methods. They hadn’t spoken for more than an hour, just sat in
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“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Lords and Ladies
― Lords and Ladies
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Reaper Man
― Reaper Man
“A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children pushed the wicked witch into her own oven...Stories like this stopped people thinking properly, she was sure. She'd read that one and thought, Excuse me? No one has an oven big enough to get a whole person in, and what made the children think they could just walk around eating people's houses in any case? And why does some boy too stupid to know a cow is worth a lot more than five beans have the right to murder a giant and steal all his gold? Not to mention commit an act of ecological vandalism? And some girl who can't tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother must either have been as dense as teak or come from an extremely ugly family.”
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“As the eye of narrative drew back from the coffin on its stand, two things happened. One happened comparatively slowly, and this was Vargo's realisation that he never recalled the coffin having a pillow before.
The other was Greebo deciding that he was as mad as hell and wasn't going to take it any more.”
― Carpe Jugulum
The other was Greebo deciding that he was as mad as hell and wasn't going to take it any more.”
― Carpe Jugulum
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