# Quote — John Brunner, The Jagged Orbit

> “Mother Superior couldn’t be drearier! Life is oppressive and lonely and dun! Little Miss Celia envied Ophelia—Hamlet ignored her and then there was none! Rat-ta-ta-ta, rat-ta-ta-ta, rat-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta. Penny a look, goobledegook, you can’t live the life that you read in a book. Pouncing and bouncing hear what I’m announcing—it’s true and you’ll never hide from it. You may think you’re knowing in coming and going but you can’t take the ‘come’ out of ‘comet.’ As I was going down the drains I met a man with seven brains. Every brain had seven lives, every life had seven wives, every wife told seven lies, who will win the liars’ prize?”

- Author: [John Brunner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner.md)
- Book: [The Jagged Orbit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-jagged-orbit.md)
- Page: 97
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner#The_Jagged_Orbit_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-jagged-orbit/mother-superior-couldnt

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