SaturdayMar 14, 2026
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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.
Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. 'Hi,' Nigel read aloud, 'Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity.'
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full- sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
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