The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)

by John Scalzi

Marce had been fighting a cold, which made his snoring both louder and more random. When it woke Cardenia up, Marce sounded like he was two cavemen having a very urgent conversation with each other about discovering fire, or hunting a feral hog, or something else along that line.

“Sophistry can be heuristically generated.” “So millennia of college sophomores have taught us, yes.”