“Wafted by a favouring gale
As one sometimes is in trances,
To a height that few can scale,
Save by long and weary dances”
― The Mikado
As one sometimes is in trances,
To a height that few can scale,
Save by long and weary dances”
― The Mikado
“To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.”
― The Mikado
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.”
― The Mikado
“Q. Star Wars or Star Trek? A. Doctor Who.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“Let the punishment fit the crime.”
― The Mikado
― The Mikado
“Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”
― The Mikado
― The Mikado
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