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Nobody is bored.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

“The human pretense to knowing, Michael.  Now, that is comedy!”

Silas Burbage,  The Adventurous Half-Life of Buddy Boyo.

“Surely it may be said, at this late date, that an orifice is a social construct and nothing more.”

Will Bestwyck,  Letters From Mr. Palindrome.

“If you actually don’t care, Hawkins, why bother to say so?”

Roone Giddings,  An Arrangement of Particles.

Harry had come to regard his inability to get rid of things as a sort of talent.

Corliss Archer,  Boarding the Crazy Train.

“She’s out with one of her poet friends.  Where, I don’t know.”

Diana Moone,  Living Well.

“What an obedient author!” exclaimed Collins, upon finally reading Ulysses.

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Belief in Insects.

Withdrawal from a world of illusion is illusion.

Hunter Hogarth,  Raised by Wolves.

“Your thinking is untidy, Philip,” said Otto in the dead fish voice.

Pryce Cummings,  Rattle Box.

“There is so much on the internet that I do not want to know about, Jennifer.  So much.”

Rhonda Carstairs,  A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.