Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

by Terry Pratchett

“What’re quantum mechanics?” “I don’t know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.”

Astfgl had passed through the earlier stage of fury and was now in that calm lagoon of rage where the voice is steady, the manner is measured and polite, and only a faint trace of spittle at the corner of the mouth betrays the inner inferno.