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Vad berodde det på? Det berodde på att man hade glömt att sätta dörrar i huset, ingen hade haft en tanke på att beställa sådant i tid, och nu var det i otid, det tar nämligen lång tid att tillverka dörrar, och snickarna i Fjorden hade fullt upp med att utföra brådskande arbeten åt folk före vintern. Äsch, det är väl bara att banka ihop några jävla brädor, sa Bjartur.

'Can you explain away love too?' I asked.
'Oh yes,' he said. 'The desire to possess in some, like avarice: in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired. Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won't be bored. The desire to find again a father or a mother. And of course under it all the biological motive.'

“I'd rather be dead or see you dead,” I said, “than with another man. I'm not eccentric. That's ordinary human love. Ask anybody. They'd all say the same – if they loved at all.”

'If you're not yet dead, Gothos, wake up!'

"Is she a mute?"
"She hasn't said as much"

'Greetings, Hsiang,' he said cheerfully.
'Lock up the manuscripts! Lock up the silver and incense burners! Lock up your wives and check your rings and purses!' the librarian screamed. 'Hello, Kao. What brings you back to civilization?' he continued in a normal tone of voice.

'The August Personage of Jade will accept letters of office from Empress Wu the moment he accepts mine to be Patron of Teetotalers.'

'I have a theory about the late lunatic lord,' he said. 'Ox, what occupation is most closely linked to insanity?'
'Emperor,' I said promptly.

'Venerable Sir, I am the humble abbot of the insignificant monastery in the Valley of Sorrows. You have heard of our valley?'
'Who hasn't?' said Master Li.
I hadn't.

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