CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

" wrote:The phrase "in the dark," as I'm sure you know, can refer not only to one's shadowy surroundings, but also to the shadowy secrets of which one might be unaware. Every day, the sun goes down over all these secrets, and so everyone is in the dark in one way or another. If you are sunbathing in a park, for instance, but you do not know that a locked cabinet is buried fifty feet beneath your blanket, then you are in the dark even though you are not actually in the dark, whereas if you are on a midnight hike, knowing full well that several ballerinas are following close behind you, then you are not in the dark even if you are in fact in the dark. Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, as well as to be not in the dark not in the dark, but there are so many secrets in this world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whether you are in the dark in the dark or in the dark not in the dark, although the sun can go down so quickly that you may be in the dark about being in the dark in the dark, only to look around and find yourself no longer in the dark about being in the dark in the dark, but in the dark in the dark nonetheless, not only because of the dark, but because of the ballerinas in the dark, who are not in the dark about the dark, but also not in the dark about the locket cabinet, and you may be in the dark about the ballerinas digging up the locked cabinet in the dark, even though you are no longer in the dark about being in the dark and so you are in fact in the dark about being in the dark, even though you are not in the dark about being in the dark, and so you may fall into the hole that the ballerinas have dug, which is dark, in the dark, and in the park.

Spring had come to Ank-Morpork. It wasn't immediately apparent, but there were signs that were apparent to the cognoscenti. For example, the scum on the river Ankh, that great wide slow waterway that served the double city as reservoir, sewer, and frequent morgue, had turned a particularly irridescent green.

Catch-22 wrote:As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.

"Who's they?" he wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?"
"Every one of them," Yossarian told him.
"Every one of whom?"
"Every one of whom do you think?"
"I haven't any idea."
"Then how do you know they aren't?"
"Because …" Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration.

Candide wrote:After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-fourths of the city of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to preserve the kingdom from utter ruin than to entertain the people with an auto-da-fe, it having been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible preventive of earthquakes... The same day there was another earthquake, which made most dreadful havoc.

Ante Bellum (post: 1472310) wrote:I also liked the way A Series of Unfortunate Events was written. I just...never read the last one. So I don't know how it ends.

raider~joseph (post: 1472578) wrote:Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?Anyone?Lines from that book series are still being used.Heck chatbot will 42 every once in a while.And come on..."Ford your turning into a penguin.Stop it."Rofl I tend to dislike sci fi books but this book is truely utterly great.

Mr. Hat'n'Clogs (post: 1472672) wrote:So, if I were interested in getting into this Discworld thing, where would be the best place to start?

TWWK (post: 1473228) wrote:All you people and your selections of witty, vulgar, or dark humor. What about something silly?

TWWK (post: 1473228) wrote:All you people and your selections of witty, vulgar, or dark humor. What about something silly? As a kid, I couldn't get enough of Sideway Stories from Wayside School, and they still get to me today.

Ante Bellum (post: 1392827) wrote:No, no, you don't understand! Mordor has terrible reception, I can't call anyone! The Eagles are too far away, and Sauron's after us! I don't know how long the Weasley Twins can hold them off. Hopefully Picard will come up with something but Spock's just being useless.

rocklobster (post: 1473361) wrote:Dave Barry also wrote funny books. I'd recommend any of them.