"The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks."
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"The professor pointed out how he could drop a keel and a propeller into the water, in case he came down at sea, and after cutting the gas bag loose he'd have a seaworthy boat. He had everything on board for survival at sea, including fancy fishing gear, flares and weather balloons for distress signals, and both shortwave radio equipment and a low-frequency system for round-the-world communications."Boy! This is somethin' right out of Jules Verne...only better, maybe," said Homer. You are right, Mr. Snodgrass," said the professor. "It is ze only way to travel. You don't go so fast, but it beats swimming! Yes? And we have everysing for safety and comfort at sea, if we have to come down. Ze only thing we have to worry about is piranhas. Oh, zey are terrible! Zey will eat everysing in sight!"Piranhas" Homer gasped. "I thought they were only found in South American Rivers"Oh" said the professor. "Do ze piranhas know zat, Mr. Snodgrass?"
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"Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night."
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"Do you ever think about the ocean" Nick asked me."What about it" I said."Like what could live down there? Like how there's as much life down there as up here? Maybe more"God Lives Underwater," said someone. "That's the name of a band. They're awesome."But seriously," Nick said, "it's like an alternate universe. Right here on our own planet."Right here, a hundred feet from us," said Sheila."Right here in my hair," said one of the girls who had swum, pulling some sea gunk out of her wet hair. Everyone laughed quietly at that. Nick drank his beer. The wood crackled as it burned. We all stared at the black ocean."
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"I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin," Beranabus grunts."
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"But...he's a demon. Isn't that sort of the main category of Things to Smite?"
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"It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy."
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"I dinna want to disappoint ye, but we's in a cellar right here, and it's full o' tatties.'After a while a voice said: 'So where izzit''Maybe it's got the day off''What's a demon need a day off for''Tae gae an' see its ol' mam an' dad, mebbe''Oh, aye? Demons have mams, do they?"
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"The Mad Affliction's arm shot out of the cage, grasping for me. I jumped back. His long, ragged talons swiped the air in front of me."Free me!" the Mad Affliction cried. He grasped for Bethany, but she backed away, too. "Free me and know the living nightmare that is unending madness!"You're not doing yourself any favors," I told him."
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"The last time I checked,I didn't have any special talent,thought Kara. Can I paint a demon to death?Drown it in some gouache?"
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"Would any of you like to share your career aspirations within the class? Jim?I dunno, to be honest, I was just hoping to be able to keep the demons away..."
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"Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates."
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"A demonic reaper asked to be my valentine and then killed his crazy ex-girlfriend to save my life. Tomorrow I was starting up antipsychotic meds."
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"He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen."Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?"
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"Trying to drown me woman"'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be''God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle."
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"In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the things they hadn't been able do while they'd been in the armed forces. The second did their best to pretend they never got out."
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"The other day, we went somewhere, and did something."
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"Your eyes having a nervous breakdown? Do you not know what to do? Well-guess what!” He stomps to the left of the recruit, pushing the recruit’s head into his until their cheeks meld together. He points out in front of them both. “I don’t care if some monkey is rippin’ your eyeballs out with rusty nails! YOU STARE UP FRONT AT ATTENTION! RIGHT THERE! IS THAT CLEAR!"
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"All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’."
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"They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!"
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