Long Mars by Terry Pratchett
… Lobsang was trying to apprehend the whole world, the whole universe and trying to understand the role of the human race in that universe.
Despite all that, Lobsang appeared to be sane …. (LM)
… Agnes was used to confused and disappointed old men, there were plenty of them in the hierarchy of the Church. (LM)
He’d told her all about parallel processing, a concept she hadn’t heard of before her reincarnation. This meant running more than one task at once, or breaking down one big job into smaller jobs to be handled simultaneously. Not that she was particularly impressed. After all, she had been doing that all her life, thinking about making dinner while also blowing noses and teaching disturbed children how to hold a conversation and composing another angry letter to the bishop, with the occasional prayer thrown in the mix. Who didn’t have to work that way, every day of a busy life? (LM)
‘We Russians have saying: “First five hundred years are worst.” Cheers.’ (LM)
‘It’s like people care more about their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth. What kind of sense does that make?’ (LM)
‘You look as blank as a chimp faced with a banana fitted with a zip.’ (LM)
‘Oh, must you plant me before these pithecine buffoons, Jocasta?’ (LM)
‘Stupidity is a universal, it seems.’ (LM)
‘I didn’t grow up despising mankind. I had to learn it.’ (LM)
… Lobsang was trying to apprehend the whole world, the whole universe and trying to understand the role of the human race in that universe.
Despite all that, Lobsang appeared to be sane …. (LM)
… Agnes was used to confused and disappointed old men, there were plenty of them in the hierarchy of the Church. (LM)
He’d told her all about parallel processing, a concept she hadn’t heard of before her reincarnation. This meant running more than one task at once, or breaking down one big job into smaller jobs to be handled simultaneously. Not that she was particularly impressed. After all, she had been doing that all her life, thinking about making dinner while also blowing noses and teaching disturbed children how to hold a conversation and composing another angry letter to the bishop, with the occasional prayer thrown in the mix. Who didn’t have to work that way, every day of a busy life? (LM)
‘We Russians have saying: “First five hundred years are worst.” Cheers.’ (LM)
‘It’s like people care more about their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth. What kind of sense does that make?’ (LM)
‘You look as blank as a chimp faced with a banana fitted with a zip.’ (LM)
‘Oh, must you plant me before these pithecine buffoons, Jocasta?’ (LM)
‘Stupidity is a universal, it seems.’ (LM)
‘I didn’t grow up despising mankind. I had to learn it.’ (LM)
