The Compulsive Quote

"There will be no peace as long as Kirk lives!"

Please excuse me, but sometimes you just have to quote a little. There's no withstanding that urge. You could be wandering along quite peacefully, and then suddenly that feeling comes over you and you just have to say:

"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb."

Oh, what joys lie in wait for the compulsive quoter, and what troubles. You can hardly use the last quote while waiting to board a plane, or asking a question of a policeman, for example. Before you knew it, you would be off to a holding cell, while members of the secret service stampede down from London to ask you all kinds of questions about your dog's shoe size and the reasons for your choice of Maine as your favourite state in the Union.

"Of course you forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration."

Incidentally, if you get any of these infamous movie quotes you will win two Quirky Muffin bonus points, redeemable for absolutely nothing but the honour of knowing nerdy things.

"Just by asking that question, you put me down to a level four. You now owe me 2000 energon cubes."

Sometime in the next week, the final part of 'Oneiromancy' will be completed and posted. This is daunting in the extreme! Until that happens there will be no reviews or other story segments. None! There will be no talk about ejecting out of the 'Modesty Blaise' movie in its first ten minutes due to utterly abominable performances, no review of the book 'This Island Earth', and no chatter about the final season of 'Parks and Recreation' that has recently landed through the post slot. None! You - the fictional you - will have to wait and see what happens, and then shudder with relief once it's all over.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Communication through the Dreamline was a neat idea, and there's a better story waiting out there somewhere; a story that will use the conceit better. Maybe the long fabled complete rewrite will do the job, bearing in mind that the rewrites of the first phases of 'Triangles' and 'Wordspace' remain to be done... It seems like there's a mountain of work to be done, even before counting all the maths and job applications!

"Hop it, hoppy."

O.