re:mote voices

her voice is full of the sexual charisma of old, alien, made up things.
-light - m. john harrison

much more alarming was what this all implied, namely that the world had more than one dragon - that if was infested with them - and that a fellow who was afraid of dragons must perforce spend all his days worrying about one or another.
-the confusion - neal stephenson

bigger than worlds, and more ancient, my engines are as chilled and quiet as this ancient universe of ours.
-marrow - robert reed

the east village is like any other village, except that it's seedier, funkier, and more violent. it is inhabited largely by witches, homosexuals, and drug addicts, and, of course, the few bad apples that you'd find in most any community.
-musical chairs - kinky friedman

it's hard to give the Heimlich manoeuvre when you're wearing Tibetan finger cymbals
-musical chairs - kinky friedman

Helen of Troy would have looked out of place. 'What's Helen of Troy doing in here?' some longshore man would have asked. He wouldn't have understood.
-a confederate general - richard brautigan

i went down town to see three movies in a market street flea palace. it was a bad habit of mine. from time to time i would get the desire to confuse my senses by watching large flat people crawl back and forth across a large piece of light, like worms in the intestinal track of a tornado.
-a confederate general - richard brautigan

she went down to the pet shop and came back with two alligators. we asked her why she'd gotten two alligators, and she said they were on sale. buy one at the regular price and you got another one for a penny. an alligator one cent sale.
-a confederate general - richard brautigan

for bar hours, press one.
to make a party reservation, press two.
to talk to a live person
or a dead vampire, press three.
or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine,
know this: we will find you!
-living dead in dallas - charlaine harris

suddenly i was grinning. i seemed to grow until i was larger than the universe itself. i contained the universe as the universe contained me! we were one. i was all mankind.

and i held a magic sword.
-von bek:city in the autumn stars - michael moorcock

the marine architect, mark, he thinks i love old ships enough to sleep with him. this is capital-NOT going to happen, but mark leads me through the security gates and into the large floating dry dock.
-fugitives and refugees - chuck palahniuk