'Time goes so quickly when you're dead.' (CJ)
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Agnes loathed him. Perdita merely hated him, which is the opposite pole to love and just as attractive. (CJ)
'You can't hurry urgency ...' (CCODD)
The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can’t have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles - kingons, or possibly queons - that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails
if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expounded because, at that point, the bar closed. (M) Fools rush in, but they are laggards compared to little old ladies with nothing left to fear. (SLF)
Death was used to travelling fast. In theory he was already everywhere, waiting for almost anything else. The fastest way to travel is to be there already. (SM)
Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don’t live for a long time. But perhaps they do live fast.
Let me explain. One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting. This may seem tough on mayflies. But the important thing is not how long your life is, but how long it seems. (Truck) 'Ye can just rush in. We always just rush in.’
‘Aye, Big Yan, point well made. But ye gotta know where ye’re just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin’ to rush oout again straight awa’.' (WFM) …the fastest animal on the Disc is the extremely neurotic Ambiguous Puzuma, which moves so fast that it can actually
achieve near light-speed in the Disc’s magical field. This means that if you can see a puzuma, it isn’t there. Most male puzumas die young of acute ankle failure caused by running very fast after females which aren’t there and, of course, achieving suicidal mass in accordance with relativistic theory. The rest of them die of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, since it is impossible for them to know who they are and where they are at the same time, and the see-sawing loss of concentration this engenders means that the puzuma only achieves a sense of identity when it is at rest – usually about fifty feet into the rubble of what remains of the mountain it just ran into at near light-speed. (P) Fast was a word particularly associated with tortoises because they were not it. (P)
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