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  1. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    And I found myself in a corner of Blackwell's Book Store. Its dark woods and book-lined walls are not only instantly recognizable but timeless, and for a moment I thought I'd made it back to 2057, and getting to the lab was going to be a simple matter of sprinting up the Broad to Balliol, but as soon as I poked my head round the bookcase, I knew it wasn't going to be that simple. Outside Blackwell's bow windows it was snowing. And there was a Daimler parked in front of the Sheldonian.
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  2. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    And I wouldn't feel any loss because I wouldn't ever have met her. I wondered suddenly if Terence did, if he knew on some level that he hadn't met his true love. And if he did, what did he feel? Mawkish sorrow, like one of his Victorian poems? Or a gnawing of some need unsatisfied? Or just a grayness to everything?
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  3. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-"
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  4. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    Madame Iritosky opened her mouth, closed it, and opened it again, looking exactly like Colonel Mering's globe-eyed ryunkin. "Fish?" Baine said, bending over her with the platter of sole. Round One to our side. Now, if only the seance would go as well.
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  5. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    The multinationals who'd been backing Darby and Gentilla lost interest, and time travel had been handed over to historians and scientists,
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  6. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement.
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  7. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    Ashes to ashes. Dust to nonsignificance.
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  8. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost.
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  9. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    How much of an effect on history can an animal have? A big one. Look at Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus, and "the little gentleman in the black fur coat" who'd killed King William the Third when his horse stepped in the mole's front door. And Richard the Third standing on the field at Bosworth and shouting, "My kingdom for a horse!
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  10. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    We weren't even a halfway decent detectin' team. We hadn't solved the case. The case had been solved in spite of us. Worse, we had been such an impediment, we'd had to be packed off out of the way before the course of history could correct itself. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement.
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  11. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    face Lady Schrapnell. And I promised I'd help
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  12. Connie Willis _ To Say Nothing of the Dog

    There was a crack of thunder so loud I was convinced I'd been struck by lightning for lying.
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