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“Both time and reality have always been regarded suspiciously in the Village, and various pharmaceutical concoctions are purveyed to those who wish to circumvent them.”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 1 (p. 7)

“What will people say?”
“Who,” I asked, “is going to tell them?”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 2 (p. 12)

“The deadline was two months earlier, but like myself Mike considered deadlines in financial rather than chronological terms.”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 2 (p. 21)

“I’m giving up everything I can’t stand for Lent.”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 1 (p. 8)

“Everybody seemed to be in show business; what the hell had happened to the audience?”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 27)

“All of this did not take long, because when I argue with myself I always have the uncomfortable knowledge that I’m going to lose; therefore I do it fast to get it over with.”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 7 (p. 56)

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“Let’s set a precedent and try to approach this thing logically.”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 2 (p. 20)

“We were getting very good at pauses.
This one, while not quite pregnant, had certainly been fooled around with.”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 2 (p. 12)

““I opposed this (the invasion of Earth),” it (the alien) continued, “having doubts about the validity or usefulness of this continued aggression. In opposing it I was, of course, opposing the Pattern, and for a Triskan to do this was what you would call blasphemy.”
“Don’t feel bad,” I interjected. “Most everyone on this planet is ready to kill and destroy for their local god.”
“Yes,” the 3V agreed, “and almost without exception, the other races and civilization we have encountered have been quite ready to do violence of all kinds to their fellow sharers of life, so long as they could claim to be doing the will of a higher power, be it a god or a government.””

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 16 (p. 125)

“Jake was being Subtle, which was only laughable; when he was straightforward he was incomprehensible.”

T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 14 (pp. 107-108)

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