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Category: Jasper Fforde

So my humor, I’d say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It’s an interesting mix.

Interesting, Comedy, Say

Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth’s funerals. She missed everything…except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke…

aftermath, blame, funerals, recriminations, reports, unconscious

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

deceit, information, untruth

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton–go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday–I don’t know why–and my father had no name at all–his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn’t exist at all. It didn’t matter. He was always Dad to me…

days, existance, identity, names, time-travel

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

paint, quiet, silence, splash, stillness

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

food, humor, vegetarian

I’m beginning to think you’re the sort of person who does a great deal with very little.”He meant a liar.

fabrication, liar, lie, lied, lies, truth

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

ignorance, prejudice

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can’t be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

humor, language

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

I don’t need you to agree with me,” she said quietly.” I’ll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It’s an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion – and action.

action, blossom, curiosity, doubt, shades-of-grey, suspicion