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"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."
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Just another one of Dr. Methuen's prankster inventions. Here's how it went down:
"Beware, John Duggan! Your sins will find you out!" ...there was nobody within fifty feet of him.
In this case, "pixillation" refers to "pixie" + "lation." And how was it done?
Dr. Methuen has additional uses in mind, with some modifications to the original device.
Original quote contributed by Harold Miller - thanks!
Compare to the green bullet from Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 or the raisin from Bart Kosko's 1987 novel Noontime. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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