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• the awesome splendour of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.
• Resolution was good for the moral fibre; the only trouble was the fibre didn’t appreciate the sacrifices he was making for it.
• calendar. A farmer who neglects to sow ordinary seeds only loses the crop, whereas anyone who forgets to sow seeds of a crop that has already been harvested twelve months before risks disturbing the entire fabric of causality, not to mention acute embarrassment.
• starfish. It wasn’t that he was unhelpful, but he had the kind of vague, cheerful helpfulness that serious men soon learn to dread. There was something infectious, possibly even fatal, about it. He was tall, red-haired and freckled, with the sort of body that seems to be only marginally under its owner’s control; it appeared to have been built out ...
• ‘His heart’s in the right place, mind,’ said Lezek, carefully. ‘Ah. ’Course, ’tis the rest of him that isn’t.’ ‘He’s clean about the house. Doesn’t eat