Tuesday

love vs bad

Bad is stronger than good. This is why in marital interactions, it generally takes at least five kind comments to compensate for one critical comment.

somebody else's problem

'A what?' he said.
An SEP.
An S ...?
... EP.
And what's that?
Somebody Else's Problem.

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sense & urgency

"Yes?" urged Arthur. He had picked up Slartibartfast's sense of urgency but didn't know what to do with it.

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Wednesday

reason vs lunch

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.


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Monday

yellow vs hangover

God what a terrible hangover it had earned him though. He looked at himself in the wardrobe mirror. He stuck out his tongue. "Yellow," he thought. The word yellow wandered through his mind in search of something to connect with. Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in front of a big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.

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