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374 pages, Paperback
First published July 19, 2001
The hardest part is telling them they're fictional. After that, the rest is usually easy.I could start this story at any number of points, but I will choose the moment when I knocked on Manny Rayner's front door. Nothing happened, so I knocked again. He opened it.
- Thursday Next, A Life in SpecOps
“I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this."
He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title.
"Didn't they split in '70?"
"Not always. How are things?”
"Can't we wait for the Chronoguard?"
"They'd never get here in time. It's easy. A lobotomised monkey could do it."
"And where are we going to get a lobotomised monkey at this time of night"
The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.