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A while back I lent my sister my copy of Guards! Guards!. This morning I received this SMS from her:

I just realised that someone in my class reminds me of CMOT Dibbler.

Posted: discworld, my journal.

I just realised something

I never read Childhood's End. I just thought I had because I have read the short story it is based on a couple of times.

Must fix that.

Overheard somewhere nearby

(4:50:51 PM) ***aepalizage is studying Canadian histor
(4:50:52 PM) aepalizage: y
(4:51:05 PM) aesmael: With an eye to conquest?
(4:51:15 PM) aesmael: Not of Canadia, but its history.
(4:51:19 PM) aepalizage: Yes.
(4:51:33 PM) aepalizage: I plan to colonize the Viking arrival at L'anse aux Meadows
(4:51:42 PM) aesmael: *is laughing*
(4:51:54 PM) aepalizage: It's a very strategic location in Canadian 4-Space
(4:51:54 PM) aesmael: *thinks the world is a better place for your having said that*
(4:52:44 PM) aepalizage: If I can control it, anyone wishing to gain access to present-displaced versions of the Canadian worldline shall have to pay my tariffs and taxes.
(4:52:51 PM) aepalizage: I shall become vastly rich.