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Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?''Er...yes.''But he's not actually thinking?''Er...no.''So...he just gives the ...more

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The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have ...more

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Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came to bei...more

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You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck t...more

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People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look ...more

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And although the space they occupy isn’t like normalspace, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a claw, a ...more

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Did I see them waving?' said Mrs Liberty'And particling, I shouldn't wonder' said the Alderman

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It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made up of /resons/ (L...more

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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated...more

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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that m...more

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Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

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Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

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As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as ...more

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Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe. It was nothing personal; they weren’t actually r...more