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har været længe oppe atten gange og forkølet femten gange … nu skal han tidligt op tre gange før han igen kan være længe oppe to gange … det er ikke det samme, men det er bedre end ingenting … alting er bedre end ingenting …

“Later, when ny personal life became complicated and full of unfortunate convolutions, worries about crab grass got lost somewhere. I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but up from the the depths of the heart. Of course both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.” (Philip K. Dick)

Det er utroligt så forskellig ens fordøjelse kan være, selv om man stort set har spist det samme? (Walther F. Lake)

“First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we’re going to have the brain race. And, if we’re lucky, the final stage will be the human race.” (John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider)

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” (Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan)

– finner drikker aldrig te, vel ..?
– nej, hvis de trænger til noget varmt, drikker de mere vodka …

– har du husket at stille vejret, skat ..?

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. (Philip José Farmer)

– det er nemt nok at købe en a3-scanner på internettet ..!
– ja, det svære er at få plads til den i virkeligheden …

Blandet slik er en af grundpillerne i et demokratisk samfund. (Walther F. Lake)

There was nothing like shared meals, so the experts at IBM claimed, for overcoming one’s basic disbelief in the existence of other people. (Thomas M. Disch)

| 334 is a science fiction novel by American author Thomas M. Disch, written in 1972. It is a dystopian look at everyday life in New York City around the year 2025. Most of the novel’s characters live in a huge housing project at 334 East 11th Street, in Manhattan. The title also refers to the year 334 AD, during the later years of the Roman Empire; numerous comparisons are made between the decline of Rome and the future of the United States. |

– jeg hører at din mand er død ..?
– ja, det er han jo …
– var det hårdt at komme igennem …
– egentlig ikke – endelig noget han selv kunne klare …

Tvillingedrengene blev døbt Tom og Troels, men efter nogle år hed de aldrig andet end Tinnitus og Terror.

“Every dog, we are told, has his day, unless there are more dogs than days.” (Bat Masterson)

– det der intimbarbering har grebet om sig, walther ..!
– ja, folk spiser heller ikke kartofler med skræl mere …

– jeg har fået en prop i øret, walther ..!
– nå, ville du hellere have haft et skruelåg ..?

| 100-årssiden |

Håndbog i at barbere testikler uden at fælde sit stamtræ. (Walther F. Lake)

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.” (William S. Burroughs)

ferieklokkerne ringer …

Når man ikke kan finde sit stamtræ, må man pisse et andet sted. (Walther F. Lake)

Omnibusudgave med romanerne The Man Who Japed, Dr. Futurity, Vulcan’s Hammer.

Dumme, dumme drømmeland … (Walther F. Lake)

According to Seattle lore, decades after the 1856 Battle of Seattle, Seattle’s future fire chief Gardner Kellogg was excavating his house and found a shell from the USS Decatur that had buried itself without exploding. He stuck it under a stump that he was trying to burn out and went off to lunch; Dexter Horton stopped by to warm the seat of his pants at the fire, and as it exploded, nearly became the last casualty of the battle of Seattle.

Den gamle generation af komikere i DR var jo stort set kun ædru nogle få timer om formiddagen og det prægede selvfølgelig deres optræden ud på aftenen.

Den er ilde stedt, som har tommelfingre på fødderne. (Godt gammelt ordsprog)

Jeg har allerede The Man Who Japed i to forskellige Ace-udgaver og i en omnibusudgave så … manuskriptet til den planlagte men aldrig realiserede filmatisering af Ubik, har jeg derimod aldrig ejet før og det samme gælder det første manuskript fra forfatterens hånd. Jeg har forsøgt mig med at åbne bogen tilfældigt nogle steder og læst derfra for at se om der var noget der fængede og det var der så ikke i første omgang. Men man er vel samler, ikke? Vulcan’s Hammer er i øvrigt udkommet i den samme serie og den mangler jeg også i stor paperbackudgave. Det er i øvrigt et eksempel på en bogserie hvor ryggene er mere vellykkede end forsiderne.

You no longer see the tiny signature identifier printed at the bottom left of pages 17, 33, 49, 65 … It’s true to say that although I never really noticed them when they were there, now they are absent I rather miss them. (Christopher Priest)