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<\/a><\/p>\n[Nob\u00adby said,] \u201cThere\u2019s a lot that goes on that we don\u2019t know about.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike what, exact\u00adly?\u201d Colon retort\u00aded. \u201cName me one thing that\u2019s going on that you don\u2019t know about. There\u2013you can\u2019t, can you?\u201d (page 42)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And lat\u00ader\u2026<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWar, Nob\u00adby. Huh! What is it good for?\u201d he said.
\n\u201cDun\u00adno, Sarge. Free\u00ading slaves, maybe?\u201d
\n\u201cAbsol\u2013well, okay.\u201d
\n\u201cDefend\u00ading your\u00adself against a total\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan aggres\u00adsor?\u201d
\n\u201cAll right, I\u2019ll grant you that, but\u2013\u201d
\n\u201cSav\u00ading civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion from a horde of\u2013\u201d
\n\u201cIt does\u00adn\u2019t do any good in the long run is what I\u2019m say\u00ading, Nob\u00adby, if you\u2019d lis\u00adten for five sec\u00adonds togeth\u00ader, \u201d said Fred Colon sharply.
\n\u201cYeah, but in the long run, what does, Sarge?\u201d (page 50)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve nev\u00ader had the plea\u00adsure before, you owe it to your\u00adself to read some\u00adthing by Ter\u00adry Pratch\u00adett. He\u2019s a humor fan\u00adta\u00adsy nov\u00adel\u00adist who actu\u00adal\u00adly makes me laugh out loud on a fair\u00adly reg\u00adu\u00adlar basis. I just fin\u00adished his most recent book and stum\u00adbled across these two lit\u00adtle snip\u00adpets that tick\u00adled me. [Nob\u00adby said,] \u201cThere\u2019s \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cthe inim\u00aditable Ter\u00adry Pratch\u00adett strikes again\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}