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Old 03-09-2003, 09:20 PM  
quiet
we'll miss you our friend. RIP
 
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Originally posted by Sappy
"The cigarette was at last inserted into the hole. The cigarette was lit. For a while the bed itself appeared to be smoking the cigarette in great heaving drags. It coughed long, loud and shuderingly and then at last began to breathe in a more measured rythm. In this way, Dirk Gently achieved consciousness."

-The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams

There's better lines, especially some of the dialouge, but that would require looking, and therefore, effort.
'mostly harmless' hehe.


' When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes. "Okay, old Dean, I'll say nothing." ' - On The Road, Jack Kerouac
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