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You can say what you like about late-sixties architecture, but when they baked in the ugly they baked it in good.
“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”
― Whispers Under Ground
― Whispers Under Ground
“...Greyhald Spold knows that Death is looking for him, and has spent many years designing an impregnable hiding place.
He has just set the complicated clockwork of the lock and shut the lid, lying back in the knowledge that here at last is the perfect defence against the most ultimate of all his enemies, although as yet he has not considered the important part that airholes must play in an enterprise of this kind.
And right beside him, very lose to his ear, a voice has just said: DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?”
― The Light Fantastic
He has just set the complicated clockwork of the lock and shut the lid, lying back in the knowledge that here at last is the perfect defence against the most ultimate of all his enemies, although as yet he has not considered the important part that airholes must play in an enterprise of this kind.
And right beside him, very lose to his ear, a voice has just said: DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?”
― The Light Fantastic
“Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.”
― Foxglove Summer
― Foxglove Summer
“We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.”
― Moon Over Soho
― Moon Over Soho
“The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
― Moon Over Soho
― Moon Over Soho
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