“No harder than walking a tightrope over a pit. A deep pit. Filled with sharks. Radioactive sharks.”
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 10, “Love’s Proper Hue” Section 7 (p. 157)
“Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.”
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
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