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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
Many fine old educational establishments had dignified memorials in some hall listing the Old Boys who had laid down their lives for monarch and country. The Guild’s was very similar, except for the question of whose life had been laid.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
“And do you have a lot of friends, Peachy?” said Teatime.<…>
“I don’t have many,” he said, apologetically. “Don’t seem to have the knack. On the other hand…I don’t seem to have any enemies at all. Not one. Isn’t that nice?”
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
“You crept up on us,
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
There were indeed a number of solitary figures in the low, dark room. Most of them wore cloaks with big hoods. They sat alone, in corners, hidden by the hoods. None of them looked very friendly.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
“Susan,” said Twyla, from somewhere under the blankets.
“Yes?”
“You know last week we wrote letters to the Hogfather?”
“Yes?”
“Only…in the park Rachel says he doesn’t exist and it’s your father really.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
This had, <...>, left her a little twisted up.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
she was destined for jobs like this for the rest of her life.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
And she was, to her mild horror, naturally good with them.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
She’d got Gawain on to the military campaigns of General Tacticus, which were suitably bloodthirsty but, more importantly, considered too difficult for a child. As a result his vocabulary was doubling every week and he could already use words like “disemboweled” in everyday conversation. After all, what was the point of teaching children to be children? They were naturally good at it.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
The boy couldn’t possibly have a real plan, he told himself. He certainly had a skewed mind—skewed?
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
Downey blinked again.
<…>
“I want to be quite certain about this, Mister Teatime. You…have…applied…yourself to a study of ways of killing Death?”
“Only as a hobby, sir.”
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
That sort of thing led to talk.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
But she’d been nearly normal for two years now, making her own way in the real world, never remembering the future at all…
Perhaps she had just dreamed things (but even dreams could be real…).
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
But it looked as if she was going to start remembering the future again.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
Possibly, as it moves, it gets tangled like a blind man in a cobwebbed house in those highly specialized little space-time strands that try to breed in every history they encounter, stretching them and breaking them and tugging them into new shapes.
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fru-n-quiz
10 августа 2026
Something began when the Guild of Assassins enrolled Mister Teatime, who saw things differently from other people, and one of the ways that he saw things differently from other people was in seeing other people as things (later, Lord Downey of the Guild said, “We took pity on him because he’d lost both parents at an early age.
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GennadijLigostaev
13 мая 2026
Образование немного похоже на венерическую болезнь: оно делает тебя непригодным для множества должностей, и к тому же ты испытываешь непреодолимое желание передать его другим.
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Murzyavka
1 мая 2026
Скука. Только люди могли ее изобрести. Ну у них и воображение!
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Murzyavka
1 мая 2026
Людям нужны фантазии, чтобы быть людьми - той точкой, где падший ангел встречается с восстающим приматом.
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Murzyavka
1 мая 2026
Если вина лежит на всех, значит, на самом деле никто не виноват. В конце концов, это ведь сама суть коллективной ответственности.
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