Find your happy faces, Gentlefucker Bastards, it's a bright new day and we get to start it EARLY!
Scott LynchLive snakes?' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-'
'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.
Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.
Scott Lynch... and you're the son of his youngest. He has no other children. Oh, your father's dead, by the way. Fell off a horse two years ago.'
'Good to know.
Why were all his fantasies so calamitous for that table, which had done him no injury?
Scott LynchAh, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don’t sit down, sahib? It ain’t dirty. Is just how it does look.’
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.
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It was not long after that Ganesh saw a big new notice in the shop, painted on cardboard.
‘Is Leela self who write that,’ Ramlogan said. ‘I didn’t ask she to write it, mind you. She just sit down quiet quiet one morning after tea and write it off.’
It read:
NOTICE
NOTICE, IS. HEREBY; PROVIDED: THAT, SEATS!
ARE, PROVIDED. FOR; FEMALE: SHOP, ASSISTANTS!
Ganesh said, ‘Leela know a lot of punctuation marks.’
That is it, sahib. All day the girl just sitting down and talking about these puncturation marks. She is like that, sahib.
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You can print a book, unfortunately you can’t print the audience
Benny BellamacinaOn this day, if it were me, I'd don a mask for all to see.
Lee Bice-MathesonWe can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
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