"Our in the entrance chamber again, they could hear the screams of the passengers being fed coffee and biscuits." - page 90 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
"Nobody keepes tall fellowes at his heeles". John Southworth, Fools and Jesters at the English Court, p. 218.
When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. - The Book of Prefaces, Alasdair Gray, p. 552.
'This man, he tied her up and pushed her into the water. He tried to kill her!' - The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver, pg 162
Outside the gate where she had to leave him, he started to bite his nails, because he wasn't sure whether she would want him to kiss her goodbye. P. 322 The follyfoot collection. It's kinda fitting is all I can say.
Slowly the Herero woke to the realisation that the land they roamed and the water-holes they used now "belonged" to someone else. Ruth First, South West Africa p. 77
'The cunning Archtempter well knew from repeated experience that men are most easily brought to ruin through their wives, and so he directed his usual malice against us too, and tempted you through marriage when he could not destroy you through fornication.' page 85, forbidden fruit - from the letters of peter abelard and heloise. phew. long sentences in the twelfth century.
Formally defined RDFS schemas aren't required for all RDF documents, but the schema approach guarantees that a particular RDF document is semantically and syntactically consistent across implementations. - Practical RDF, Shelley Powers, p. 118.
'The Pranksters moved on to Mexico City and environs, giving a couple of acid tests, but without any astounding gusto.' - Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe.
"So the Isrealites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead - to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh." Joshua 22:13 - Bible
"Brine fire and bring shell and heap all upon the pyre." Warhammer 40K. pg 96 [it sounds freakier than it is.]
"It is worth paying attention to such details as warming the pot and using water that is really boiling, so as to make quite sure of wringing out of one's ration the twenty good, strong cups that two ounces, properly handled, ought to represent". - George Orwell, Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters 3.
The use of the crossroads as a symbol of Satan's presence comes from the concept of being the final resting place for suicides and those unworthy of being buried in hallowed ground. (Take a walk on the Dark Side, Rock and Roll myths, legends, and curses - R. Gary Patterson p5)
I propose that the palantiri were made of thousands of alternating, microscopically thin layers of lithium niobate and beta carbon nitride. - The Science of Middle Earth, Henry Gee, p. 142.
"Seeing co-operation as not just a rational problem but also an evolutionary one suggests why these dispositions should take the form of feelings rather than rationally motivated cogitation." Pascal Boyer, "Religion Explained" p.213
'For the thing about a myth is not whether it is true or not, nor whether it should be true, but that it is somehow truer than truth itself.' Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no gap left in it (though up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates) Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying "Come and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono". - The Bible
contray to reputation, many pike cichlids are reasonable fish for the cichlid community. - the bumper guide to tropical cichlids. fish research
