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{{quote|"Oh, [[Eagle Land|my people]] had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world. None were very good gods, and I worshipped none of them."|Calvin Morrison, ''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen''}} |
{{quote|"Oh, [[Eagle Land|my people]] had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world. None were very good gods, and I worshipped none of them."|Calvin Morrison, ''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen''}} |
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"We are now running a sort of gaseous-diffusion process, to separate the nuclear physics from the pornography. I must say, Hildegarde has her biological data very well in hand, too."|''Uller Uprising''}} |
"We are now running a sort of gaseous-diffusion process, to separate the nuclear physics from the pornography. I must say, Hildegarde has her biological data very well in hand, too."|''Uller Uprising''}} |
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{{Quote|"Shatrak's face turned pink; the pink darkened to red. He used a word; [[Narrative Profanity Filter|it was a completely unprintable word]]. So, except for a few scattered pronouns, conjunctions and prepositions, were the next fifty words he used."|"A Slave Is a Slave," when a local [[Culture Clash|honestly didn't know]] that suggesting Commodore Shatrak might be a slave was insulting}} |
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Latest revision as of 19:30, 18 October 2018
"Oh, my people had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world. None were very good gods, and I worshipped none of them."
—Calvin Morrison, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
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About the In-Universe trashy "historical novel" Dire Dawn by Hildegarde Hernandez: —Uller Uprising
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"Shatrak's face turned pink; the pink darkened to red. He used a word; it was a completely unprintable word. So, except for a few scattered pronouns, conjunctions and prepositions, were the next fifty words he used."
—"A Slave Is a Slave," when a local honestly didn't know that suggesting Commodore Shatrak might be a slave was insulting
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