Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
Jasper FfordeAcceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
Jasper FfordeVanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.
Jasper FfordeTags: books humour vanity-publishing
This must have been how it all began with Chymes,” sighed Jack. “A small
omission on one case, an ‘embellishment’ on the next. The question is not about
what’s best but what’s right. Chymes had confused the two and compromised not
only his own integrity but that of the police—and the due process of law.
If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.
And the journey starts NOW.
Tags: shit political-commentary
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
Jasper FfordeTags: information deceit untruth
Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.
Jasper FfordeTags: reading war government diplomacy free-press
The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
Jasper FfordeIt is written.
Jasper FfordeHe spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
Jasper FfordeTags: thursday-next jasper-fforde the-woman-who-died-a-lot
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