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THE READER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You have still only got to the star second closest to the Earth after the Sun, but it feels a very long way from home, so you look for something to help locate yourself, … Les videre →

DIGRESJONER She’s a Talty. Do I need to say more? (Dear Reader, time is short, we can’t even open The Book of Talty, because if we did we’d get sucked out in that tide. We’d be Gone for Some Time … Les videre →

FAILED PSYCHOLOGY «You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don’t like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate.» «Consciously, sir, consciously,» Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. «I hate them consciously.»

Jeg har enda til gode å lese en roman skrevet av P.G. Wodehouse og har bestemt meg for å bruke denne søndagen til å gjøre noe med det. Derfor har jeg funnet frem «Summer Lightning», den tredje i serien om … Les videre →

THE GARDENER ‘Everybody now knew that the gardener must be the murderer, and though he has never been heard of from that day to this, he will be, mark my words. The crime was committed this day two-and-twenty years–on the … Les videre →

EN FORSVARSTALE «As to my personal responsibility, I can tell you even now, fully aware and having summed my life up after long contemplation, that as this country’s party leader and head of state for 33 years I bear the … Les videre →

Compensation «I was someone who had gone out with the daughter of Mrs Sarah Ford (deceased) for a period of about a year, who had been patronised by her husband, loftily scrutinised by her son, and manipulated by her daughter. … Les videre →

About the Author «Stephen Fry was born in the twentieth century and will die in the twenty-first. In the course of writing seven books he has drunk four hundred and twelve thousand cups of coffee, smoked one and a half … Les videre →

Fem konger, minst like mange kriger, kjente og kjære faller som fluer. Likevel må man da le en gang iblant: «Ned Stark a traitor?» Ser Jorah snorted. «Not bloody likely. The Long Summer will come again before that one would … Les videre →

JULENISSEN – FRA EN ANNERLEDES SYNSVINKEL «Santa Claus was from the other side. He belonged to the Presbyterians and the Roman Catholics, to the Jesus-worshippers and Jew-haters, to Hitler and all the rest of them.» Fra «Timbuktu» av Paul Auster.