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Lebie stood to the side and opened the door for the two officers, who entered the flat textbook style, each holding a gun in both hands.

Well, your childless women are now my terra nullius, Harry. No one has fertilised them, therefore no one owns them.

While his sexually motivated murders follow a pattern akin to compulsive acts, the Clown Murder is quite different, it's a rationally necessary murder, you see.

TORTOISE: This operation of preceding some phrase by its quotation is so overwhelmingly important that I think I'll give it a name. I believe I'll call it "to quine a phrase", to quine a phrase.

I met B. Q. a few times, had some "chats" re T. S. Eliot's "Cats"

It seems to me that the metaphor applies far beyond the limited arena of poetry translation. Any technological development, for instance, goes through a series of stages of refinement and evolution ... The endpoint of such an evolutionary process (if there is an endpoint) is often ... radically different

words, and their mysterious semantic and sonoric halos

We conclude our gay romp through the wily Wickedary with "cockocracy", whose definition is a little separatist pun-poem: "the state of supranational, supernatural erections; the place/time where the air is filled with the crowing of cocks, the joking of jocks, the droning of clones, the sniveling of snookers and smudges, the noisy parades and processions of prickers: pecker order". A-men! (Eh, men?)