Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

Jonathan Stroud

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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 Stroud

Mots clés intelligence bartimaeus



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That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.

Jonathan Stroud

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He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

Jonathan Stroud

Mots clés chickens bartimaeus magicians demented lords-and-ladies



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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.

Jonathan Stroud

Mots clés enemy bartimaeus provoke deamon goad margarine nathanial



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Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.

Jonathan Stroud

Mots clés bartimaeus jonathan-stroud stroud



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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 Stroud

Mots clés humor bartimaeus stroud



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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 Stroud

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Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.

Jonathan Stroud

Mots clés humor bartimaeus amulet-of-samarkand bartimaeus-trilogy



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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. (...)

Jonathan Stroud

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