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“It鈥檚 easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there鈥檚 a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity鈥檚 Rainbow

“And that is what Mauritius is most famous for: the extinction of the dodo.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“September smiled at her wonderful friends in all their colors and bright eyes and gentle ways. 鈥淵ou know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn鈥檛 so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it鈥檚 only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body鈥檚 a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions.”
― Catherynne M. Valente

“Jollain ajatuksen tasolla m盲 k盲sit盲n,
ett盲 se on villiel盲in.
Sen pit盲is olla vapaa.
Mutta silti jokin mussa huutaa,
ett盲 tuolla ulkona ihmisten armoilla
sille k盲vis huonosti.

Sille k盲vis niin kuin dodoille.”
― J.S. Meresmaa, Dodo

“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally Apocalyptic. It was now the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan

“... he relived the day he had been ushered into a London house to see an exotic 'great fowle' -- nothing less than a live dodo, one of the very last to be seen in Europe.”
― Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown