“Passing through?” “Yes; here to meet with Moody.” “You’ll get more sense from lichen. What’s with your… — Jasper Fforde
“Passing through?”
“Yes; here to meet with Moody.”
“You’ll get more sense from lichen. What’s with your head?”
Unlike talking to The Notable Goodnight, where I needed to be polite, this was an answer I could have fun with.
“It’s the final stages of an excruciatingly painful and incurable genital wasting disease. Luckily, it’s only spread by skin contact. Sorry, I should’ve said that before I shook your hand. Remiss of me – apologies.”
Shamanic Bob smiled.
“Fair enough,” he said. “I think I deserved that.”
“Yes, I think you did.”
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