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2 30 "That would be against the law."
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2 18 "Don't eat profits."
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2 16 "You already are."
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2 16 "Nowhere directly"
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2 15 "You go there..."
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2 15 " is now closed."
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2 14 " a package of "
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5 13 "The waitress "
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2 13 " you want to "
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2 10 " your hand"
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2 9 "You walk "
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2 9 " contains"
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2 8 "You find"
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2 8 "It seems"
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2 8 "'s size."
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2 8 " you see"
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2 7 "You're "
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2 6 "closed"
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3 6 "Taken."
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2 6 " here!"
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2 5 "about"
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2 5 "Well,"
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4 5 "Okay,"
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2 5 "Done."
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5 5 " the "
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2 4 "your"
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3 4 "the "
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3 4 "tell"
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3 4 "open"
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5 4 "down"
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28 4 "The "
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2 4 "How?"
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4 4 "Down"
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2 4 " is "
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3 4 " has"
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3 4 " are"
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2 4 " any"
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2 3 "put"
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2 3 "off"
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2 3 "n't"
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2 3 "lox"
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3 3 "her"
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5 3 "You"
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2 3 "She"
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2 3 "Out"
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12 3 "But"
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2 3 "..."
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2 3 " on"
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3 3 " is"
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4 3 " in"
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2 3 " do"
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5 2 "up"
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5 2 "on"
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6 2 "in"
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2 2 "at"
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2 2 "It"
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7 2 "A "
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4 2 "?]"
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2 2 ": "
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4 2 ".\""
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2 2 ". "
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20 2 ", "
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4 1 "s"
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5 1 "o"
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3 1 "n"
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3 1 "i"
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3 1 "]"
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3 1 "["
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2 1 "O"
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11 1 ">"
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39 1 "."
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2 1 ","
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3 1 "\""
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6 1 "!"
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19 1 " "
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< 32 "You're barking up the wrong tree."
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< 32 "You're barking up the wrong tree!"
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< 30 "Congratulations are in order. You're ranked as..."
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< 30 "Congratulations are in order. Having braved mutable strangeness and
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having made the heroic gesture of a rescue, you make possible the reuniting
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in joy of a grateful Punster family. This feat earns you the rank of "
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< 25 "There's no one here to show it to."
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< 24 "Your brother-in-law Bob swings open the refrigerator door, loads himself
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down, shuts the fridge door with his knee, and with his movable feast
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shuffles back into the living room."
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< 24 "Your brother-in-law Bob is kicking back on
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your favorite chair, feeding his face and staring at the television"
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< 24 "You hear a stage whisper, \"Another move like that and the light's going
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to be out on his career.\""
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< 24 "You hear a stage whisper that stops you: \"He might as well be pulling
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the plug on his career.\""
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< 23 "You don't know the way there."
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< 23 "You don't know the way back."
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< 23 "There's no one here to shake hands with."
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< 23 "There's no one here to "
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< 22 "From the looks of it, you've been given the "
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< 22 "From the looks of it, her answer to your "
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< 22 "An avalanche of boxes tumble down as the box boy keeps putting new ones on
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the shelves."
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< 22 "An avalanche of boxes slopes down from the shelf"
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< 20 "Your brother-in-law trips you up."
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< 20 "Whom do you want to turn the tables on?"
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< 20 "Whom do you want to make small talk with?"
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< 20 "This is no time for such vain self-congratulation."
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< 20 "There's no key to this problem of locks."
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< 20 "There's no key to these locks."
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< 20 "The ice is too thick here. My job is to make things cold for you, not let
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you have fun."
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< 19 "This is no time for pigging out on"
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< 19 "This is no time for"
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< 18 "You haven't even mixed it up with the waitress. So there's no need to take
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it up with the cook yet."
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< 18 "You haven't even met the farmer's daughter yet."
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< 18 "The old brass horn suddenly radiates through its tarnished surface a deep
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amber glow of indignation, and trumpets out a sharp rebuke in a nasty off-key
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pitch that seems to accuse you of taking hold of itself without rightfully
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owning it."
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< 18 "The old brass horn"
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< 18 "GIVE THE WAITRESS SHORT SHRIFT"
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< 18 "GIVE THE WAITRESS HER COMEUPPANCE"
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< 18 "GIVE THE WAITRESS AN EVIL EYE"
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< 17 "You don't have a weapon."
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< 17 "You don't have a leg to stand on."
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< 17 "You are standing in a fertile valley among the tall and lush crops in
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the field. Mountains bordering the valley serve to shield the fields
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from damaging wind storms."
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< 17 "You are standing at the edge of a barren field that is reminiscent of the dust
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bowl days. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting
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sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly burrowed
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molehill on the ground."
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< 17 "The crowd boos, stopping your hand. \"Booo... boooo.\""
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< 17 "The crowd boos, so you back away instead"
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< 17 "Congratulations. You have been nimble and you have been quick. Punster will
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from here on out enjoy better relations with its northern neighbor, Jackville.
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The Citizen's Action Committee does hereby confer upon you the title of "
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< 17 " sits in the dusty road here."
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< 17 " sits in the dust at the side of the road, feeling all of the spirit of gravity, looking dog-eared and worn out by a lifetime on
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the farm"
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< 16 "be more specific.]"
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< 16 "be more specific about how you want to use"
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< 16 "You're standing in front of a large but oddly shaped manor house. From
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the outside, it looks as if its individual rooms have been haphazardly
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constructed and are out of proportion with each other. This has a slight
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disorienting effect."
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< 16 "You're standing here in the barnyard, a meager patch of scratched earth. "
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< 16 "You don't have any money"
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< 16 "You can't use \"and\" that way."
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< 16 "You can't use \"all\" that way."
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< 16 "You already haven't"
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< 16 "You already have"
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< 16 "That would be extremely painful."
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< 16 "That would be excessively rakish behavior."
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< 16 "Not a bad idea, since the "
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< 16 "Not a bad idea, but t"
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< 16 "It doesn't look like"
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< 16 "It doesn't look as if"
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< 16 "Congratulations on your personal hygiene, but"
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< 16 "Congratulations for the completion of these
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19 chores. You have transformed their abandoned husk of a farm into a horn of
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plenty. The McCleary's, under your tutelage, have learned much about
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how to manage their farm, coping with the tough realities of modern
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farming. After this long period of want, the townspeople of Punster will
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feast heartily upon the fruits of your labor. You shall be honored by
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them with the rank of "
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< 16 ".||
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The mermaid, having been warmed by the dip in the hot tub, and freed of
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the entanglement of the fishing line, appears ready to brave the frigid
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waters for a long swim to warmer regions. She hyperventilates for a few
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moments and braces herself with a frenetic self-hug, stopping to give you
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a smile with her thin lips.|
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She bids farewell, and slips back into the frigid water, causing a
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little plop of water as her tail fin disappears beneath the surface"
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< 16 ".||
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The mermaid is also in the hot tub, smiling with her eyes closed as
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she swims "
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< 16 " doesn't seem too upset."
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< 16 " doesn't seem to grow much."
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< 15 "[You can't see that here!]"
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< 15 "[You can't see "
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< 15 "You're already wearing"
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< 15 "You're already standing."
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< 15 "You're already juggling as many items as you could possibly carry."
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< 15 "You're already here."
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< 15 "You don't have such an eye now."
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< 15 "You don't have nearly enough gall to storm into the kitchen, but you're
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getting there."
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< 15 "The mermaid is tall, curvaceous and attractive, even with her long blond hair
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dripping wet"
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< 15 "The mermaid is swimming circles around you in the well-insulated hot
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tub, her long silken blond hair streaming through the steamy water. "
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< 15 "The mermaid is floating upright and swimming, with some difficulty, to and
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fro under the surface of the ice. Her long blond hair drifts back and forth
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following the undulating motion of her body"
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< 15 "The ice is too thick"
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< 15 "The ice is too firmly attached."
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< 15 "Refer to it as a LAME DUCK."
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< 15 "Refer to it as A DOOR."
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< 15 "It looks like the horse has drunk a lot of water."
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< 15 "It looks like ten percent fewer cavities."
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< 15 "Congratulations. Having rid the manor of its unwanted, if spirited,
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visitors you thereby, in the eyes of the Citizens' Action Committee,
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earn the title of "
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< 15 ", having been smashed back into his currently thin man-sized
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shape, stands here looking disheveled and shaken"
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< 15 ", having been scrubbed from head to toe, is a towering
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figure of a man."
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< 15 " down the aisle to him. He summarily bites "
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< 15 " down the aisle"
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> 27 " in disguise\" doesn't have the right ring to it."
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> 27 "That phrase have the right ring to it."
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> 26 "You hear someone behind the flimsy door whisper, \"Another move like that
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and his career's in the toilet too,\" which stops you in your tracks."
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> 26 "The urgency of the unseen voice stops you in your tracks."
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> 26 "Closing his book with a hollow thud, the shepherd uses a stick
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to scrawl a two-line message on the shore. And then, looking with grand vision
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toward the tributaries of the Rhine River,
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our loving shepherd turns tail, walks away from the shore,
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and disappears in the distance as he leads between the Rhines."
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> 26 "Shepherd leads between the Rhines."
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> 25 "You can't get there from here."
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> 25 "Can't get there from here."
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> 24 "The door jamb is tight against the door."
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> 24 "Although you tug your hardest, you can
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see the door jamb is too tight against the door."
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> 23 "Finding nothing of interest here, the aunts walk in a line around the corner
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of the aisle and out of sight."
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> 23 "With a final karate chop to your leg, the little girl spirits off down the
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aisle and out of sight."
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> 22 "Old Factory, Stock Room"
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> 22 "Shore, Old Factory, Stock Room"
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> 22 " It offers much shelter from the cold, which is now nipping at your nose."
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> 22 "There continues to be an annoying bitter cold frost nipping at your nose."
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> 22 "You can barely see your hand in front of your face, but you can't miss
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the personification of frosty weather himself nipping at your nose."
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> 21 "Find it in the medicine cabinet."
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> 21 "You look a little peaked to yourself, reflected in the mirror of
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the medicine cabinet."
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> 21 "The peas in the can simmer briefly and furiously but nothing else happens."
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> 21 "The hinges creak eerily as the door moves slowly back and forth, but
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nothing else happens."
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> 21 "They are too busy gossiping among themselves."
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> 21 "The milling aunts are gawking and talking among themselves."
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> 21 ", kicking her feet in frustration,
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continues to shine on the door."
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> 21 " appears
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to shine on the door."
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> 21 "not all that appetizing."
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> 21 ", they don't look all that appetizing."
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> 21 "'s stubborn as a mule."
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> 21 "He's stubborn as a mule."
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> 19 "[There were too many nouns in that sentence.]"
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> 18 "Super-brief descriptions."
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> 18 "Brief descriptions."
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> 18 " is hanging against the door and flailing her legs into
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air. The operative words in this absurd predicament seem to be that she
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appears to \"shine on the door.\""
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> 18 "\"Shine on the door.\""
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> 17 ",\" says the piper."
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> 17 "\"Not quite the right phrasing,\" says the piper."
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> 17 "It's firmly attached."
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> 17 "The ice is too firmly attached."
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> 16 "[There seems to be a noun missing in that sentence.]"
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> 16 "[I couldn't understand that sentence.]"
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> 16 "The mohair of the hat ruffles a couple of times, but that's it."
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> 16 "The spiraled seams flex and tighten, but that's it."
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> 16 " faces you open-mouthed, and his bad breath caused by
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all his recent activity drives you back down the aisle."
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> 16 "They're crawling in a line down the aisle."
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> 16 "A mermaid swims desperately under the suface of the ice."
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> 16 "You knock a wide circle of frost away from the ice, allowing you to see an
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astonishing sight below the ice: A woman's face with her large beautiful
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eyes wide open and her long, blond hair drifting back and forth as she swims
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side to side below the surface of the ice."
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> 16 "||
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A line of sheets hangs down from the cloud."
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> 16 "You are surrounded by a swirling, blinding cloud. You feel your limbs going
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relaxed and your eyelids are buffeted with sand from the cloud."
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> 16 ".||
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If at any time in your travels you wish to tackle another situation, indicate
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BEGINNING, and you shall return here empty-handed."
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> 16 "You're empty-handed."
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> 16 "Jimmy \"Fat Baby\" Kazooli reclines in the bathtub."
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> 16 "The mayor is sitting in the bathtub."
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> 16 "You hear a stage whisper, \"Another move like that and the light's going
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to be out on his career.\""
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> 16 "You hear a stage whisper that stops you: \"He might as well be pulling
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the plug on his career.\""
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> 16 "One hand slips off the handle and hits the switch. The jackhammer
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coughs, wheezes and shudders to a halt. All the features of the "
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> 16 "The long piece of metal, in reality the glistening, razor-sharp blade of a
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jackknife, pivots out of its handle and with a \"snap!\" all the other
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features of the "
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> 15 "The cook begins gathering his own devices, as flames lick up around the rim
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of the frying pan"
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> 15 "Flames intensify up around the frying pan"
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> 15 "VENT MY SPLEEN UPON THE WAITRESS"
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> 15 "TURN THE TABLES ON THE WAITRESS"
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> 15 ". Also on the mantel:"
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> 15 " Resting on the mantel:"
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> 15 "He rips it away from you."
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> 15 "The mermaid covers up her necklace and shrinks away from you."
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> 15 "The fragile bottle is smashed into smithereens."
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> 15 "From the consequential uproar, there seems to be a
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ring of truth in this phrase. In strong jets shooting at varying
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trajectories, the bathwater in the tub begins first to spout off.
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Suddenly, this messy but harmless spectacle of the spouts is over, and
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angry riptides ruffle the water's surface. Now with the tidal force of
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lunar determination, the bathwater polarizes itself around the edges of
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the tub and even higher, engulfing the mayor and leaving a wide funnel
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of air in the middle of the tub.|
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As the gathering water reaches a critical peak, it pauses for one brief
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moment, and now with an awful suddenness collapses into itself to form
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a fearful wave of tubular shape and seismic strength. It gushes in front
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of your face and toward the stairs in a torrent, through which you can
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see the strange slow-motion figure of the mayor swimming half in air
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and half in water. Following the mayor inside the wave and down the
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stairway is the tub itself, which, out of your sight, makes the terrible
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crashing noise of porcelain going to smithereens."
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> 15 "As you touch the bag you hear \"Meow... Meow.\" You gingerly pick up the
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bag. It continues moving slowly in your hands."
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> 15 "Having pulled the wool over the waitress's eyes, you snatch the neon sign,
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which glows warm in your hands."
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> 15 "You'd never make it up the stalk while holding anything in your hands."
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> 15 "\"Snap!\" The branch comes off in your hands."
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> 15 "fill your belly with the warmth of smoked salmon."
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> 15 "You \"unlox\" the door by gathering the smoked salmon."
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> 15 "man's voice from the other side of your front door. \"Knock knock.\""
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> 15 "Bob stays in there several very tense minutes, without making a sound.
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Just when you think it's about time to call a professional, Bob's silence
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is suddenly broken by the words, \"Knock knock.\"" |