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(Alternate words: Museum, marathon.) Mass. What is mass? Mass is annoying. It takes up space even when it serves no purpose. It is never where it is needed. If you have too much of it in one place, physics stops working properly and starts acting all weird. Mass is slow.
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(No alternate words.) From Academician Múírí Larathyr-ith-Lyrian, Fellow of the Sodality of Commutative Logotecture, Associate Proctor of the Conclave of Linguistics and Ontology, Loremaster of Linguistics, Semiotics, and Memetics, to the Ecumenical Commission of Translation and Conversion, greetings. With respect to the views of the Commission and those expressed by
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(Alternate words: kindergarten, kinetic.) BLACKFALL’S LANDING, KAMEQÓ – [Informational: Until 27 hours previous to message dispatch, the city of Blackfall’s Landing was designated as Ilin Var; such codings may still be in use.] Another coup has rocked the former Whatever of Kameqó today with the ascension of Lord Blackfall,
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(No alternate words.) “Violet diamond,” said the jeweller, peering at the gemstone through his optronic loupe. “A genuine rarity, if it is. Genuine, that is. Nearly three hundred grains, uncut. High clarity. And – ah, not flawless. One very slight inclusion. Excellent.” “Ah, I — that’s a good thing?” “It is
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(Today, two words for the price of one!) The fragrant smoke of jernja cigars drifted across the fantastically carved wooden balcony of the building, one of the many in the Repository of All Knowledge’s complex, where two eldrae were enjoying the changing light as twilight fell across Calmiríë. “Have
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(Alternate words: hammer, hardware, hatred.) It was in the fourteenth year of the reign of the Third Citrine Triarchs that the new star appeared, a blue pinpoint in the Fourth House, above the beak of the Ram. No ancient writings spoke of this. None predicted its appearance. As is customary,
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(Alternate words: googolplex, goods, grill.) The two free traders at the back table in Katry’s Bubble considered each other over untouched drinks. A 70/30 shot slowly warmed to room temperature; a glass of finelle kept its chill, as its fumes ran across the tabletop in a thin haze.
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Sorry, no G on schedule today, due to great, squandrin’, orgulous, hours-long headache. Will do tomorrow at best speed.
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(Alternate words: Firefly, Fan, Fanboy, Fantasy, and Failure. Added to the list.) “3. Information must be preserved.” – the Five Noble Precepts, modern formulation Deep Repository Site Mocál spun on through the darkness between star systems. Mocál was a sub-Murian wanderer moonlet, a stony body falling free in the endless dark
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(Alternate words: Espresso, Effect, Ecumenopolis, Eldritch, Evidence, and Ending. Added to the list.) The shuttle hangs barely a hundred yards away to my retrograde, cargo airlock still agape; the pilot’s nerves must surely be worn to shreds with the delay in this atmosphere-scraping orbit, even more than mine. Time
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(Alternate words: Devil, Delta, Defiled, and Dalliance, all of which have been placed on the later-consideration list. Also “Drink Order”, which will be today’s trope-a-day.) Calencail 14th Summer breakfast parlor With all respect to my illustrious cousin, the most frustrating aspect of the translocation problem is having an answer
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(Alternate words: Citadel and Computronium, both of which have been added to the later-consideration list.) Clothes define the sophont, the sages say. That the sages are indubitably correct on this point is, however, a distinct trial to those of us addressing a crisis, and so finding ourselves dashing aboard the