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Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you? If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be.

Just walk through him, I said, still deep in thought. and if you ever wanted to know how a moose works, just stop halfway and take a good look around.

Most of Mycroft's ideas were far too dangerous to even think about, much less let loose on a world unprepared for hyper-radical thought.

Mr McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Male guilt avoidance syndrome,' explained my father. 'It's a recognised medical condition by 2054.

He said you were very dangerous. No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.

The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point.

You're the Cheshire Cat, aren't you?' I asked. 'I was the Cheshire Cat,' he replied with a slightly aggrieved air. 'But they moved the county boundaries, so technically speaking I'm now the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, but it doesn't have the same ring to it.

the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

I can get a table at the Inn Uendo. The maîtred' is missing a space, and I promised to give her one.

There were seven thermonuclear devices? queried Parks, who had latched on to Jack's outlandish explanation without too much difficulty, as should you.

I arrived at the Swindon branch of TJ-Maxx at a little after two. I knew as well as anyone that the store hadn't been deliberately set up as a bargain store for end-of-line designer garments, but rather as a high-security facility for the imprisonment of dangerous criminals.

The room didn't contain a large jar as Landen had suggested, but rather a human-size sarcophagus made out of Tupperware to ensure freshness.

Male guilt avoidance syndrome," explained my father. "It's a recognized medical condition by 2054.

None of us were surprised when he switched to a career of crime. He was something of a lech. He made one of the students pregnant.

Bah! exclaimed Rochester. Pixies both! Begone with you; we will talk later!

Emperor," I said, "if a character has run its course, then it's run its course. What do you want me to do? Go and talk the author out of it?" "Would you?" replied Zhark, opening his eyes wide. "Would you really do that?" "No. You can't have characters trying to tell their authors what to write in their books. Besides, within your books you are truly evil and need to be punished.

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When were our brows bound?" yelled the audience. "Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths," continued Richard, ignoring them completely.

Rotten luck," said Falstaff as I walked past. "There were the remains of a fine woman about Havisham.

Quark, said the Quarkbeast.

at least this way I never get to be a nightwalker, lumbering around the Winter, eating beetles and curtains and people and stuff