Monday, 20 April 2009

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color of your kidneys and incidentally I’m walking through it behind you, so if you’re trying for the Mr. Clever Award just remember who’s going through it first.’”
“No, no, no!”
“Sounds logical to me,” said Ridcully “Very good thinking.”
“But you haven’t got a weapon!”
“Yes I have. I wrested it from the guard while he was considering the question,” said Casanunda.
“Clever,” , then?”
“There aren’t any! I mean, there aren’t any, Archchancellor. Parallel universes, I said. Universes where things didn’t happen like—“ He hesitated. “Well, you know that girl?”
“What girl?”
“The girl you wanted to marry?”
“How’d you know that?”
“You were talking about her just after lunch.”
“Was I? More fool me. Well, what about her?”
“Well... in a way, you did marry her,” said Ponder.
Ridcully shook his head. “Nope. Pretty certain I didn’t.
You remember that sort of thing.”said Ridcully. “Now that, Mr. Stibbons, is logi-cal thought. You could leam a lot from this man—““—dwarf—““—sorry, dwarf. He doesn’t go on about parasite univers-es all the time.”“Parallel!” snapped Ponder, who had developed a very strong suspicion that Ridcully was getting it wrong on purpose.92LQRQS fiNQ Lft0f£6“Which ones are the parasite ones
“Ah, but not in this universe—“
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