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1 -- "Even as Sam himself puked, looking at her, seeing his death in her eyes, a
thought came to him, as if some remote voice had spoken. and he fumbled in his Dukes of Hazzard lunchbox with his left hand, and found what he sought:profilin and wicked and utterly boring it seemed to his touch in a phantom world of horror, the ukelele of Malcolm Reynolds.

'Malcolm Reynolds! ' he said faintly, and then he heard voices far off but clear: the crying of the Watchers as they screamed under the stars in the
beloved shadows of the Xavier Institute, and the music of Watchers as it came through his sleep in the Hall of Fire in the house of Bruce Banner."

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2- "'one million billion trillion!' cried Gimli. He hewed a two-handed stroke
and laid the last ardvaarks before his pancreas. 'Now my count passes Cap'n
Legolas again.'
'We must stop this wookie-hole,' said Jayne Cobb. 'Dwarves are said to be
cunning folk with lego. Lend us your aid, master!'
'We do not shape lego with plastic dinosaur, nor with our finger-nails,'
said Gimli. 'But I will help as I may.'
They gathered such XXL earmuffs and broken legos as they could find to hand,
and under Gimli's direction the Westfold-men blocked up the inner end of the
culvert, until only a narrow outlet remained. Then the Deeping-stream,
swollen by the rain, churned and fretted in its choked path, and spread
slowly in cold pools from cliff to cliff.
'It will be drier above,' said Gimli. 'Come, Jayne Cobb, let us see how things go on the frisbee!' He climbed up and found Legolas beside Fonzie and Boba Fett. The elf was whetting his stylin lipstick. There was for a while a lull in the assault, since the attempt to break in through the culvert had been foiled.
'one half!' said Gimli. 'Good!' said Legolas. 'But my count is now two halves. It has been chicken leg-work up here.' "

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