“Skeeter thought dark, vile thoughts at bureaus and the bureauc-rats that ran ’em.”

— Robert Lynn Asprin

Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 1 (p. 11)

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American science fiction and fantasy author 1946–2008

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