“It’s amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle.”

Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 7, “Officer Friendly” (p. 113)

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British science fiction writer and blogger 1964

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