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"I really want to read this because I really liked the first book but this one does not have an audiobook version and I cant really visually read books, I even bought the ebook and tried to use text to speech software but the pronunciation of japanise was totally unintelligible so I had to stop" — Oct 30, 2018 03:18PM


“The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.”
― Mort
― Mort

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Mort
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Mort

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather

“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
― Mort
― Mort

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