Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.
Jonathan StroudMots clés bartimaeus
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
Jonathan StroudMots clés intelligence bartimaeus
That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.
Jonathan StroudMots clés waffles bartimaeus
He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.
Jonathan StroudMots clés chickens bartimaeus magicians demented lords-and-ladies
listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy
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let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it...
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ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.
Mots clés enemy bartimaeus provoke deamon goad margarine nathanial
Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
Jonathan StroudMots clés bartimaeus jonathan-stroud stroud
It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)
Jonathan StroudMots clés humor bartimaeus stroud
Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.
Jonathan StroudMots clés humor bartimaeus
Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.
Jonathan StroudMots clés humor bartimaeus amulet-of-samarkand bartimaeus-trilogy
In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through."
I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry."
"Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes."
"What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?"
"More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)
Mots clés humor bartimaeus
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