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Originally Posted by kennyc
1. Never open a book with weather. [/url]
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The white July heat, the hottest it had been in two hundred years, engulfed the city. The air shimmered over red-hot rooftops. All the windows in the city were flung open, and in the thin shade of wilting trees, old women sweated and melted on benches near courtyard gates.
The sun charged past the meridian and sank its claws into the long-suffering book bindings and the glass and polished wood of the bookcases; hot angry patches of reflected light quivered on the wallpaper. It was almost time for the afternoon siege, for the furious sun to hang dead still in the sky above the twelve-story house across the street and fire endless rounds of heat into the apartment.
Strugatsky, Definitely Maybe
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So that's the first 'rule' pressed to the floor and shot in the back of the head. Maybe I'll exterminate the others, at my leisure.