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I und'standed why Meronym'd not said the hole true 'bout Prescience Isle an' her tribe too. People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin 'em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. Old
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And if you'd swap your metalife for a bone clock's snatched, wasted, tawdry handful of decades!
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In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows.
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it's hard to describe a psychosoteric battle at close quarters..... Think of those tennis-ball firing machines, but loaded with hand-grenades trapped in a shipping container, on a ship caught in a force-ten gale.
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The Cookie Monster is anarchic, dynamic and madly driven by a very specific, but also totally random, aim: he wants cookies. He wants to charge around crazily smashing cookies into his mouth. He will never get enough cookies. It's unclear whether he understands this. Maybe he imagines some future stage of sated calm which he might achieve if, miraculously, he were to obtain all the cookies he desires. Or maybe he is wiser than that and know..
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The dissolution and sale of British Rail, transforming it into a disjointed network charging exorbitant prices for an unimproved and still taxpayer-subsidised service, darkened the joke a bit much for popular tastes. We stopped chuckling. It was like the tipsy uncle had assaulted a receptionist.
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David Mitchell |
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Love may be blind, but cohabitation comes with all the latest X-ray gizmos.
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David Mitchell |
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THE KEY by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki:
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David Mitchell |
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I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.
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David Mitchell (author) |
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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
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David Mitchell (author) |
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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David Mitchell (author) |
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Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.
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