For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!

Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.