a weapon so deadly that not even its extreme beauty could justify its use.
“If we had some cheese, we could have a ham-and-cheese sandwich,” replies Father Captain de Soya, “if we had some ham.”
― Endymion
― Endymion
“A mother with child screamed at him and he pulled out John the Baptist, who screamed back until she was screaming for an entirely different reason.”
― Veniss Underground
― Veniss Underground
“First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich,’ it said, then looked annoyed, and spoke incoherently into a grille set in its belly, which replied. It looked up and said, ‘Sorry. As I was saying: I come in peace.”
― The State of the Art
― The State of the Art
“She was one of the unfortunates trying to get some sort of human grasp of Earth’s economics, and deserved all the light relief she could get. I recall that all through that year you could tell the economists by their distraught look and slightly glazed-looking eyes.”
― The State of the Art
― The State of the Art
“Birds weren’t supposed to levitate or have four mouths or twenty pairs of wings or twelve sets of legs and undulate like a dragon. But, what could you do?”
― A Peculiar Peril
― A Peculiar Peril
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