wrzasnął Pstrąg Zabijucha.
“She was a widow, and he stripped himself naked while she went to fetch some of her husband’s clothes. But before he could put them on, the police were hammering on the front door with their billy clubs. So the fugitive hid on top of a rafter. When the woman let in the police, though, his oversize testicles hung down in full view.” Trout paused again. “The police asked the woman where the guy was. The woman said she didn’t know what guy they were talking about,” said Trout. “One of the cops saw the testicles hanging down from a rafter and asked what they were. She said they were Chinese temple bells. He believed her. He said he’d always wanted to hear Chinese temple bells. He gave them a whack with his billy club, but there was no sound. So he hit them again, a lot harder, a whole lot harder. Do you know what the guy on the rafter shrieked?” Trout asked me. I said I didn’t. “He shrieked, ‘TING-A-LING, YOU SON OF A BITCH!’” (ang.)
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Cytaty z książki
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Trzęsienie czasu – powieść Kurta Vonneguta, amerykańskiego pisarza niemieckiego pochodzenia, nawiązującego swym stylem do surrealizmu.
There is a planet in the solar system, where the people are so stupid they didn’t catch on for a million years that there was another half to their planet. They didn’t figure that out until five hundred years ago! (ang.)
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You want to know why I don’t have AIDS, why I’m not HIV-positive like so many other people? I don’t fuck around. It’s as simple as that. (ang.)
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Those artsy-fartsy twerps next door create living, breathing, three-dimensional characters with ink on paper. (…) As though the planet weren’t already dying because it has three billion too many living, breathing, three-dimensional characters. (ang.)
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