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Legendary lovers rarely flew anywhere, and hardly ever ate insects.
Fighting and flying. His last teacher had started the day with Latin and poetry. Sometimes Latin poetry. Fighting and flying sounded much more enjoyable.
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that’s as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.’
‘Don’t be supplying me with information that I am supplying to you. That is a very annoying trait, which I would relish beating out of you.’
‘Set the big man beating the little man. That tactic worked on everyone, even Napoleon.’
Was that wit? No, surely not from a man who thought that electricity was a gift from the fairies.
‘Stupid gas lamps,’ said the man. ‘What’s wrong with candles? A candle never ruptured and exploded. I hear a gas explosion destroyed an entire city in China, ’cept for the cats what are immune to gas.’
‘And don’t tell me lobsters aren’t getting smarter. I caught a lobster last month and I swear he was trying to communicate. With the clicking claws and the pointy head yokes.’
‘Nothing is more amusing than watching a blind man fall.’
Hot chocolate, diamonds and mysterious cargo! They felt like princes on a quest.
