# Quote — Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

> The good thing about being in the BookWorld is that we aren’t hampered by anything as awkward as physical laws. The RealWorld must be hideously annoying to do science in.

- Author: [Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md)
- Book: [One of Our Thursdays Is Missing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing.md)
- Page: 172
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde#One_of_Our_Thursdays_is_Missing_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing/the-good-thing

## More from this book

> To a text-based life-form, unpredictable syntax and poor grammar is a source of huge discomfort. Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can’t walk to the bathroom. Poor syntax is even worse. Change word order and a sentence useless for anyone Yoda except you have.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing/to-a-text-based.md)

> The idea that people actually do this because they like it strikes me as double insanity with added insanity.

p. 339 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing/the-idea-that.md)

> About ten degrees upslope of Fiction, I could see our nearest neighbor: Artistic Criticism. It was an exceptionally beautiful island, yet deeply troubled, confused and suffused with a blanketing layer of almost impenetrable bullshit.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing/about-ten-degrees.md)