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Things to use or delete. See [[Snippets]]. | Things to use or delete. See [[Snippets]]. | ||
== If you can't have seamless, how about seamful? == | |||
Seamy is the status quo. | |||
Seamless is out of the question, not even approachable. | |||
Why not go the other way? All seam, no surface? | |||
Cf: Hounds of Tindalos, [[Elder Gods (nonfiction)]]. | |||
== Get Back To Me When You're Dead == | == Get Back To Me When You're Dead == | ||
"Sorry, can't use the living. Get back to me when you're dead." | "Sorry, can't use the living. Get back to me when you're dead." | ||
- [[The Custodian]] | |||
== Steam-Powered Flush Urinals == | == Steam-Powered Flush Urinals == | ||
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== All Thanklessness == | == All Thanklessness == | ||
You should be all thanklessness, eh? For what passes between us requires no thanks. | "You should be all thanklessness, eh? For what passes between us requires no thanks." | ||
Latest revision as of 04:09, 31 July 2019
Things to use or delete. See Snippets.
If you can't have seamless, how about seamful?
Seamy is the status quo.
Seamless is out of the question, not even approachable.
Why not go the other way? All seam, no surface?
Cf: Hounds of Tindalos, Elder Gods (nonfiction).
Get Back To Me When You're Dead
"Sorry, can't use the living. Get back to me when you're dead."
Steam-Powered Flush Urinals
" ... equipped with all kinds of excessive luxuries -- steam-powered flush urinals, self-propelled cuckoo clocks ... along with God knows how many ..." etc.
Your Skull
... in which case you'll spend the next few hours staring at whatever happens to be in the direction your skull is pointing ... your skull, the big knob at the smart end of your vertebral array, that's right ...
All Thanklessness
"You should be all thanklessness, eh? For what passes between us requires no thanks."