December 2011
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Noli Timere Messorem
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Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
Death: BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE RATHER STUPID AND WASTE THEIR LIVES. HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THAT? HAVE YOU NOT LOOKED DOWN FROM THE HORSE AT A CITY AND THOUGHT HOW MUCH IT RESEMBLED AN ANT HEAP, FULL OF BLIND CREATURES WHO THINK THEIR MUNDANE LITTLE WORLD IS REAL? YOU SEE THE LIGHTED WINDOWS AND WHAT YOU WANT TO THINK IS THAT THERE MUST BE MANY INTERESTING STORIES BEHIND THEM, BUT WHAT YOU KNOW IS THAT REALLY THERE ARE JUST DULL, DULL SOULS, MERE CONSUMERS OF FOOD, WHO THINK THEIR INSTINCTS ARE EMOTIONS THEIR TINY LIVES OF MORE ACCOUNT THAN A WHISPER OF WIND.
Susan: No. No, I've never thought like that.
Death: YOU MAY FIND THAT IT HELPS.
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Fever's Back
Blah. Can’t find it in me to finish up the final assignment and do anything right now.
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“Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It’s the difference between using a feather...”
– Terry Pratchett, Faust Eric
“SOME SHADOWS ARE SO LONG, THEY ARRIVE BEFORE THE LIGHT.”
– Death, Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
– Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
[after questioning Hamlet]
Guildenstern: I think we can say we made some headway.
Rosencrantz: You think so?
Guildenstern: I think we can say that.
Rosencrantz: I think we can say he made us look ridiculous.
Guildenstern: We played it close to the chest, of course.
Rosencrantz: Question and answer! Old ways are the best ways! He was scoring off us all down the line.
Guildenstern: He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice, perhaps, but I thought we gained some ground.
Rosencrantz: He murdered us.
Guildenstern: He might have had the edge.
Rosencrantz: Twenty-seven to three, and you think he might have had the edge? He *murdered* us!
Guildenstern: What about our evasions?
Rosencrantz: Oh, our evasions were lovely - "Were you sent for?" "My Lord, we were sent for." I didn't know where to put myself.
Guildenstern: He had six rhetoricals.
Rosencrantz: It was question and answer, all right. Twenty-seven questions he got out in ten minutes, and answered three! I was waiting for you to *delve.* "When is he going to start delving?" I asked myself.
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“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?”
– “Calvin & Hobbes” (Comic by Bill Watterson)
