Friday, 20 August 2004
On heads
"Ninety-two coins spun consecutively have come down heads ninety-two consecutive times." - Guildenstern; Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
"'And this young lady is Hallis.'
'Where's your other head?'
She gave him a sorrowful look. 'When I was walking around today, I met a young man who had no head. Just a stump that suggested he had a long, sad story to tell. But of course he couldn't, because he had no head.'" - Wedge Antilles, Tomer, and Hallis; Aaron Allston's Starfighters of Adumar
"There is much promise / in the circumstance / that so many people have heads" - Miroslav Holub; found in A. Alvarez's Night
"'And this young lady is Hallis.'
'Where's your other head?'
She gave him a sorrowful look. 'When I was walking around today, I met a young man who had no head. Just a stump that suggested he had a long, sad story to tell. But of course he couldn't, because he had no head.'" - Wedge Antilles, Tomer, and Hallis; Aaron Allston's Starfighters of Adumar
"There is much promise / in the circumstance / that so many people have heads" - Miroslav Holub; found in A. Alvarez's Night
