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“After entering, the newcomer was struck, as though by a bat tering ram, by the pungent odour of third-rate beer, sweat, urine, garlic, cabbage, travel-worn footwraps, old boots and the devil only knows what else. One had to stomach it and enter confidently, signalling in so doing that one belonged to the profession.”

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“‘Revenge will place you outside the law.’

‘I know.’

‘So go and—’

‘Yes?’

‘—kill those fuckers.’”

Okay girl!!

“The executioner turned the screw again. And again. And that was the end. The old woman screeched once more. Only then did Geralt understand it hadn't been a screech, but a laugh.”

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“...I confess. So confessio is the vagina and so on.”

Geralt what 😐

‘I would like you to visit me at the Academy in Ban Ard. In my laboratory, where I would conduct some research. I would take some samples. It wouldn't cost you anything, apart from perhaps a few drops of blood. And perhaps a tiny quantity of other... bodily fluids. As a scientist, it interests me very much what happens to your blood - and your entire body - when you imbibe elixirs.’

IRB where??

“...As far as folk outside Oxenfurt and university circles were concerned, you could tell them all you wanted about glaciers and they still wouldn't have understood a word of it. Where did the lake come from? you'd ask, and they'd tell you it was really a very large puddle.”

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“‘Have you ever seen one?'

‘I have,’ he said. He wasn't lying. But he omitted to add that it was in an engraving. In Physiologus, and other books in the library at Kaer Morhen.

‘And do you know how to deal with something like that?’

‘I do.’ Again, failing to add that his knowledge was from books and Vesemir's lectures.’

Something something the confidence of a white man

“...In the next village, he had to examine the village headman's genitalia and explain that the issue wasn't a curse, but an advanced dose of the clap, and it wasn't a witcher that was needed there, but a physician.”

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“‘You went away somewhere, vanished, and the priest was there the whole time, offering up exorcisms and saying prayers... Thus, the councillors decreed that you invalidated the contract. Because the curse was revoked thanks to the priest and not to you... In other words-

'In other words, you're paying me nothing.’”

Always shortchanging my man smh

“...Half of his body was covered in the substance, from his feet to his waist. The slime seemed to be moving. Geralt went closer. Indeed, the ooze was pulsating and trembling, extending twitching tentacles.”

Bro what