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I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

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'.

Do you want some advice? Go home. You're far too inquisitive, and here in East Carmine curiosity only ends one way. Death? Worse - enlightenment.

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

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

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

boiling Mr. Wolff alive was quite outside the realm of 'reasonable force' and the fact that the large pan of water would have taken at least six hours to reach boiling point strongly indicated premeditation.

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.

The opposition Prevailingwind Party led by Alfredo Traficcone

She's a journalist. She wrote a long piece about whether bears should be allowed to carry weapons for self-defence.' 'The "right to arm bears" controversy?

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

Sort of like using the Jabberwock to frighten children, yes?" "Well, not really," replied Deane thoughtfully, "because there is a Jabberwock. Frightfully nice fellow—good at fly-fishing and plays the bongos. I'll introduce you sometime.

It's a whole new different alternative kettle of fish here, y'know.

The color painted within the Green Room was known as sweetdream and would render you unconscious in twelve minutes and dead in sixteen, but during those twelve minutes every synapse in your brain would fire in a sparkling fountain of pleasure. The cries from the Green Room were never of pain or fear. They were of ecstasy.

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

According to naturalists, the dragon belonged to the animal kingdom for sure, almost definitely to the vertebrates, and was as likely as not a reptile. Other

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

The last infirmity of a noble mind»: la última flaqueza de una mente noble. Es lo que dice Milton de la vanidad. ¿Qué le parece? Hasta los mejores hombres tienen su granito de vanidad. Lo cual quiere decir que, cuanto peor es un hombre, más vanidad tiene, y que los peores, como Ferrer, son sólo vanidad.