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