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• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house was there
  but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth....
• We work out entirely too much. We waste time. A friend of mine runs marathons.
  He always talks about this "runner's high." But he has to go twenty-six miles for it....
• It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground.
  But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree....
• Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth.
  But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are....
• A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet. -- Lao Tsu
• The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed.
  Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days....
• To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic.
  The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth amd Sun....