It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.
It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would they approve of modern society, they ask, would they marvel at pres...
It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met.It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, dr...
It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.
It's amazing how good governments are, given their track records in almost every other field, at hushing up things like alien encounters. One reason may be that the aliens themselves are too embarrass...
It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.
Koan ninety-seven: Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you. Hmm. No real help there. Besides, he'd occasionally been unsure that he'd written that one down properly, although it certain had...
Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.
Let him be whoever he thinks he is, she said. That’s all anybody could hope for in this world.
Life in this world, he said, is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing sha...
Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
Look, how about this? Let's pretend we've had the row and I've won. See? It saves a lot of effort.
Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ...
Mr Tulip raised a trembling hand. 'Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?' he said.NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW.'Which bit?'THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOUR BEING BORN AND Y...
Music, landscape gardening, architecture—there was no start to his talents.
NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?
Nanny just tended to put a hot poultice on everything and recommend a large glass of whatever the patient liked best on the basis that since you were going to be ill anyway you might as well get some...
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