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Only a lunatic—or a renegade, or a pariah, or a misanthrope, or a risk junkie, or a mass murderer—would live permanently on the Moon.
“And women? What do you make of the Purgatorial women?” “They’re female.”
“Neither do I. But I figure that when it comes to that acid, it was flung in my face ‘not without a cause.’ Because maybe I’m just meant to look this way.”
“ ‘Popular’ is a bit much. But he’s feared. Which is better than being popular.”
He knows that interesting anecdotes are one of the most corruptible currencies in the world.
HARMONY SMOOTH IS A lunatic. And a killer. And a Sinner. And a prostitute. For a flat rate she will do Hand Relief, Sybian, BJ, Clam Dip, Texas Straight-Up, 69, DVDA, Half and Half, Full French, Tantric, Threesome, Whipped Cream, Hullabaloo, Dominatrix, the Marie Celeste, and some of the less extreme forms of Watersports.
lunatics on moon is recurring theme. this is a very descriptive job description. i only know about 1/2 these services lol
“Nothing. Of course I did nothing. The wise cricket keeps to its hole. And who was I anyway? A morgue attendant? What could I do? Report it to the police? When the police were part of it? No, I was mute as a fish.
“And so it is, we speak of the devil and yea, the devil appears,” the preacher booms. “For you see before us a graven image in the shape of a man. Which is to say the image of God, which is to say in the name of sacrilege.
“In the beginning was the Dollar, and the Dollar was with God, and the Dollar was God.”
Well, let me tell you, that minx has got a twat like a hippo’s yawn. She’s banged just about everything in Sin with a pulse—men and women and everything in between. Even that robot of hers, Leonardo Brownnose—she’s fucked him too.
He swings the machete like a scythe and the last thing Ngô sees is his own headless body collapsing in a heap on the other side of the room.
how do you see your own headless body?
JUSTUS REMEMBERS SOMETHING GRIGORY Kalganov said just hours earlier: You cannot see your shadow in a world of darkness.
“I can hit you so hard that your shadow bleeds.”
“If you try to fuck me over, I will fuck you under.”
“What’s the point of walking in another man’s shoes?” “There is no point, unless his shoes are better than yours.”
“A mad scientist builds a monster out of body parts. The monster heads into the woods and kills a little girl. Who, then, is most responsible? The mad scientist or the monster?”
“It is the burden of kings to endure the workings of knaves and fools, Your Majesty.”
