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No day spent at Nimm's home would have suggested to the visitor that another seven billion people were crawling over the planet more or less simultaneously. The island was all his. -
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a nuisance when it wasn't what he used for ordering a coffee, or for buying lotto tickets, or for visiting the bookstore with the girl from Florida at the cash register. He dreamt
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Never yell "FIRE!" in a crowded dungeon until after all cats with broken legs have been safely evacuated. (Considerate patrons will insist upon the prior evacuation of all cats.)
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"PLYMOUTH COLONY MASSACRED!" the headlines screamed. "ABORIGINAL TRIBES REPUDIATE PROTESTANTISM, CITE DISDAIN FOR LATENT UNITARIANISM! RISIBILITY TOWARDS TRANSCENDENTALISM FEARED!"
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When it comes to only a choice between unmedicated goo and coagulated dust, I am reluctant to express any preference. Are you certain no other means of entry and exit is available?
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"Bad proofreader, bad BAD proofreader!" Zelda glared. "All you've done is introduce fresh errors to the typesetters' pristine proofs! Have you been smoking in your office again?"
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hilarating with unperturbed clarity. (However, handsaws are notoriously difficult to master in the upper registers, and excruciating nicks and cuts to fingers were the price.)
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populated his mind with facts less relevant to nuclear disarmament and with less correlation among themselves (the advent of saccharine diets in times of Blatterian propagation).
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She'd needed the movers, she'd paid them, now they were gone. Tess examined each site again, where the movers'd placed each item, adjusting as needed, examining the scant damage.
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Maraschino sauce, you take my meaning?" Mr. Crockett then shifted atop his stool, throwing one leg over the other, nodding with his pipe, hands clasped over one knee, not a word.
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while pressing his cheeks together in front of a mirror, someone loosened his handlebars. At his next headstand, he crunched into the gravel and collapsed his cervical vertebrae.
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Ants, so far, outlive us, we shan't likely outlive them, but owing to the obvious differences in scale, we can hardly be said to be leading lives commensurate with those of ants.
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Woman left, took up with friend, spent all money, wrecked new car; with this complement of blues, Hawkins had another three or four rattling his skull as he poured his last shot of
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The universe has become so rife with bend and arc, I think we can't depend on parallel lines not intersecting for much longer, did you see that bend in the moon's orbit last month?
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Another Wright Brother, Hiram, put off by the fame of his airborne brothers, became a mining engineer specializing in the drilling of anthracite coal seams, bitumenous on Sundays.
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Soap floated in the blood.
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reasonably good shape, so he had two crowns, so what? The fillings had held up well for over twenty years, but all things must pass. "But don't fix this chip on my incisor, okay?"
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the mortuary salon crew. "Granchley lost another finger and two toes today, you're missing EVERYTHING!" Pez taunted me lumbering by, almost losing her own tongue she spit so hard.
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But this diner served crab cakes only for lunch and supper: for breakfast, pancakes. Yet the maple syrup dispensers were left atop each table, their use encouraged, a ghastly sight
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n assignment that would take her on an overseas jaunt leading to the peripheries of other continents, not so much deeply into their interiors but more than just a few miles in?