SENTENCE MEME ⟶ TERRY PRATCHETT’S MEN AT ARMS / PAGE 15 - 21 (web version)
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‘has he come to arrest us, do you think?’
‘i expect that somewhere, a crime is being committed.’
‘what is the reason for you being here at this time?’
'we’ll just go and talk outside, shall we?’
'what do you know about museums, anyway?’
'that isn’t how you spell gone, anyway.’
'i was watching you. you were being very rude.’
'i can’t stand the man, actually. but you were making him look foolish.’
'people like that should be publicly flogged.’
'you must'n’t touch anything.’
'they don’t think we’ll do any good.’
'um, i didn’t translate that properly. they don’t think /we’re/ any good.’
'what are we looking for, actually?’
'it’d be no good him facing them with an inferior weapon.’
'i thought you didn’t believe in devils and demons and stuff like that.’
'is there anything missing?’
'—mind your head. sorry.’
'there’s something bad underneath all this.’
'do you think there’s such a thing as a criminal mind?’
'he’s just geographically divergent in the financial hemisphere.’
'he just disagrees with other people about the position of things. like money. he thinks it should all be in his pocket.’
'there are people who, with one easy word, will steal the humanity from people. that’s something else.’
'what the hell did all that mean?’
'how come you read notice? get someone to hold you up?’
'not that bloody gang of mad firework merchants!’
'come on. let’s go out through the back door.’
'we’re going to find out what’s been going on here.’
'what does a clown have that’s worth stealing?’
'what sort of danger is a clown?’
'did you read the sign on the door when you came in?’
'how many fingers am i holding up?’
'we think that he found a way of making himself invisible.’
'nah, that wouldn’t be like old ____. he wouldn’t disappear. but he might vanish.’
'he was a bit… unhinged, if you know what i mean. head too full of brains.’
'there’s perfectly normal magic available for that kind of thing.’
'there seems to be a bucket of whitewash over the door.’
'i keep on forgetting: is it crying on the outside and laughing on the inside? i always get it mixed up.’
'that’s why my trousers are at half-mast.’
'maybe he was cleaning a club, sort of thing, and it accidentally went off.’
'it was a scene to make a happy man slit his wrists on a fine spring morning.’
'i don’t see why those buggers should get away with it.’
'how many dishonourable discharges have you had?’
'you still doing the folk dancing on your nights off?’
'i’m definitely a bit under-endowed in the head department.’
'there’s a young man downstairs asking for you.’
'i saw an interesting rare butterfly on the roof over there.’
'didn’t he have a crossbow?’
'who’s that glum bugger?’
'first battle in the universe where the enemy were persuaded to sell their weapons.’
'someone’s been killed here.’
'how did you know there was someone dead in here?’
'you don’t think my hair gets like this by itself, dear, do you?’
'you couldn’t spare ten thousand dollars for a small mansion, could you?’
'it’s ridiculous you not even being able to count.’
'how long have i been asleep?’
'i’ve got to get something inside me. some coffee or something. and then the world will somehow be better.’
'if you can count to two, you can count to anything.’
'that was a bloody awful cup of coffee.’
'i mean i’ve drunk a lot of bad coffee in my time, but that… that was like having a saw dragged across my tongue.’
'stop! in the name of the law!’