Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

by Jasper Fforde

rebookment

Good grief!

Lola Vavoom,

We had long and wonderfully pointless conversations about nothing in particular, walked Pickwick in the park, went out to dinner, stayed in for dinner, stared at each other a lot and slept in late every morning. It was wonderful.

Cordelia Flakk. She was the senior SpecOps PR agent here in Swindon

He put out his hand. ‘Would it upset you if I didn’t shake it?’ I asked him. ‘Well, yes,’ he replied, trying to be affable. ‘Good.’

Leptonic.’

proleptic

‘While you’re about it, can you try and get Tess acquitted and Max DeWinter convicted?’

‘The name is Snell, Akrid Snell.

the Magic Roundabout.

The mulit-roundabout junction in Swindon .

and was dressed in something that might have been her Sunday best, but not anyone else’s.

‘I’m Phodder,’ said the driver. ‘My associate here is Kannon.

Yorrick Kaine, the charismatic young leader of the marginal Whig party.

‘I’m not sure. What’s the opposite of déjà vu; when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?’ ‘I don’t know – avant verrais ?’

the alien spaceship that crash-landed near Lambourn in 1952,

‘Male guilt avoidance syndrome,’ explained my father. ‘It’s a recognised medical condition by 2054.’

‘SO-12 take retrosnatch very seriously and they assure me that it is always detected, sooner or later or both – and dealt with severely. But it’s possible. Bowden, give SO-12 a call, will you?’ Bowden put out his hand to pick up the phone just as it started to ring. ‘Hello? . . . It’s not, you say? Okay, thanks.’

vol-au-vents.

vols-au-vent

Tunguska event.

Thylacine,’

‘Did you show her your memory erasure device, Crofty?’ ‘No, he didn’t,’ I said. ‘Yes I did,’ replied Mycroft with a smile,

‘You’ll be fine,’ he assured me. ‘They’d be nuts to take any action against you. If things get bad, just remember what Flanker rhymes with.’

‘Agent Walken, SO-5; this is my associate, James Dedmen.’

‘These are agents King and Nosmo.’

‘The way out is the same as the way in – only reversed.’

Futzing

TNN

‘Spank the mammoth and you’re under arrest.’

Diatryma

Saknussum International Gravitube Terminus,

SPORK.’

‘I was the Cheshire cat,’ he replied with a slightly aggrieved air. ‘But they moved the county boundaries, so technically speaking I’m now the “Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat”, but it doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Well of Lost Plots

‘I know that only too well,’ I replied, steering them towards a quiet spot next to a model of a matchstick made entirely out of bits of the Houses of Parliament.

Quite how there can be more than one Supreme Evil Being I have no idea.

You told me you heard them yourself and Officers Hurdyew, Tolkien and Lissning heard you talking and listening to someone in the upstairs corridor.’

People curse here as a matter of course.’

Crumbobbilous

Her Majesty is a verb short of a sentence.’

Bloophole

The Squire of High Potternews,

grammasites

‘The adjectivore feeds on the adjectives describing the noun,’

Alf Widdershaine,

Bonnie Voige

Violet De’ath,’

The Goliath establishment we arrived at an hour later was their Research & Development Facility at Aldermaston.

Schitt-Hawse happily. ‘Welcome back!’ ‘Thank you, Brik

Brik Schitt-Hawse

instructions: food mixers, liquidisers, microwaves – who knows, if I work really hard I could make it into television or wireless. That’s the future for an ambitious manual worker.

Manual worker :-)

‘and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.’

From Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, chapter 6.