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diff --git a/lib/file/book-0.txt b/lib/file/book-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..07403e0d --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/file/book-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ + + Mordekainen's Magical Compendum of Deep Thought. + ------------------------------------------------ + +If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the +courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something. + +It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. + +The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had +any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and +filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other +children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost +broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was +too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him +down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of +these people. + +Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is +why several of us died of tuberculosis. + +Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word +itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - +"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and +that's why so is mankind. + +Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can +bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little +tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be +like ambition. + +I'd rather be rich than stupid. + +We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at +them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. + +Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of +striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. + +As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, +I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he +was, and how I named him Flint. + +When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school +we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat +one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman +was a bear. + +Why do there have to be rules for everything? It's gotten to the point +that rules dominate just about every aspect of our lives. In fact, it +might be said that rules have become the foot-long sticks of mankind. + +If I had a mine shaft, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's +got to be a better way. + +If I had a nickname, I think I would want it to be "Prince of +Weasels", because then I could go up and bite people and they would +turn around and go, "What the-?" And then they would recognize me, and +go, "Oh, it's you, the Prince of Weasels." + +It's amazing to me that one of the world's most feared diseases would +be carried by one of the world's smallest animals: the real tiny +dog. + +Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see +that I forgot to put on my pants. + +I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death. + +It's fascinating to think that all around us there's an invisible +world we can't even see. I'm speaking, of course, of the World of the +Invisible Scary Skeletons. + +Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, +catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I +think: Oh boy! I'm going insane again. + +He was the kind of man who was not ashamed to show affection. I guess +that's what I hated about him. + +The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very +large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of +meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just +say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside +the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh? + |