Цитаты lone_hunter

15 декабря 2009 г.

Jack. How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.

Algernon. Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

Jack. I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Algernon. When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins. [Rising.]

Jack. [Rising.] Well, that is no reason why you should eat them all in that greedy way. [Takes muffins from Algernon.]

Algernon. [Offering tea-cake.] I wish you would have tea-cake instead. I don’t like tea-cake.

Jack. Good heavens! I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden.

Algernon. But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins.

Jack. I said it was perfectly heartless of you, under the circumstances. That is a very different thing.

Algernon. That may be. But the muffins are the same. [He seizes the muffin-dish from Jack.]

Jack. Algy, I wish to goodness you would go.

Algernon. You can’t possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It’s absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

30 октября 2009 г.

His voice, Will thought, I never noticed. It's the same colour as
his hair.
'Pa,' he said, 'don't sound so sad.'
'Me? I'm the original sad man. I read a book and it makes me
sad. See a film: sad. Plays? they really work me over.'
'Is there anything,' said Will, 'doesn't make you sad?'
'One thing. Death.'
'Boy!' Will started. 'I should think that would!'
'No' said the man with the voice to match his hair. 'Death makes
everything else sad. But death itself only scares. If there wasn't
death, all the other things wouldn't get tainted.'

28 августа 2009 г.

'No, no' said Frankie, 'it's the brain we want to buy.'
'What?!'
'Well who would miss it?' enquired Benjy
...
'It could alwys be replaced,' said Benjy reasonably, 'if you think it's important'
'Yes, an electronic brain,' said Frankie, 'a simple one will suffice.'
'Yeah,' said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, 'you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? - who'd know the difference?'
'What?' cried Arthur, backing away still further.
'See what I mean?' said Zaphod