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Kaloka! Ito ba ang Pilipinas na gustong iligtas nina Lola Sepa at Emil? Iligtas mula saan? Kung sarili nga ayaw nitong iligtas! Ang gusto lang ng mga ito'y kumain, tumae, mag-Glutathione, saka pumunta sa weekend markets, mag-malling para makalibre ng air-con, mag-text ng corny jokes, sumingit sa pila ng bigas, saka umasa ng suwerte sa lotto o sa TV! Kapag may bagyo o lindol o anumang problema'y laban pero susuko din agad at makakalimot, o kaya ay magma-migrate! Ilang taon na ba ang bansang ito pero bakit hanggang ngayo'y wala pa ring pinagkatandaan?
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Ricky Lee (Si Amapola sa 65 na Kabanata)
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Life went on. That was the terrible thing. They were ripped out of their world, their lives, their sense of who and what they were. Their history. They were killed, or made to watch the people they loved die. And then, at some point, they were hungry. Thirsty. They had to piss. Someone told a joke, and they laughed, however darkly. They washed dishes. Changed clothes. Held funerals. It felt like it should have stopped, all of it, and it didn’t. The slow, low pulse of being alive kept making its demands, no matter what. However bad it was, however mind-breaking and strange and painful, the mundane insisted on its cut.
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James S.A. Corey (The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War #1))
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I find that story horrifying, but since it ended in a fart joke, I’m not sure how to react.
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James S.A. Corey (Leviathan Falls (The Expanse #9))
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There was an old joke. Miller didn’t remember where he’d heard it. Girl’s at her own father’s funeral, meets this really cute guy. They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn’t know how to track the guy down. So a week later, she kills her mom. Big laugh.
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James S.A. Corey (Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1))
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There was an old joke. Miller didn't remember where he'd heard it. Girl's at her own father's funeral, meets this really cute guy. They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn't know how to track the guy down.
So a week later, she kills her mom.
Big laugh.
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James S.A. Corey (Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1))
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There was an old joke. Miller didn't remember where he'd heard it. Girl's at her own father's funeral, meets this really cute guy, They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn't know how to track the guy down.
So a week later, she kills her mm.
Big laugh.
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James S.A. Corey (Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1))
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The heat death of the universe had mostly been a joke about how long her thesis was taking.
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James S.A. Corey (Leviathan Falls (The Expanse #9))
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She'd had enough conversations with him now to know he was telling a joke without his voice signaling that it was a joke. No one else in her social life did that, and she found it irrationally annoying. It made every exchange into a puzzle that had to be decoded to see if it was sincere or not.
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James S.A. Corey (Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse) by James S. A. Corey, Orbit)
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and he wore a thin mustache like it was a joke he was in on.
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James S.A. Corey (Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection)
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It’s his pathological move. I get it.” “I don’t know the term.” “It’s the thing people do when they’re working on instinct. When they’re stressed and overwhelmed, there’s something they go to by reflex. Tonner focuses down on something small enough to control. Campar makes jokes. Jessyn withdraws. Everyone has something.
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James S.A. Corey (The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War #1))
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The joke was that Ceres didn’t have laws—it had police.
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James S.A. Corey (Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1))
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On Mars, the joke went, a man’s hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room.
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James S.A. Corey (Drive (The Expanse, #2.7))
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You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.
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S.A. Tawks (Misadventurous)
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She’d had enough conversations with him now to know he was telling a joke without his voice signaling that it was a joke. No one else in her social life did that, and she found it irrationally annoying. It made every exchange into a puzzle that had to be decoded to see if it was sincere or not.
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James S.A. Corey (Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8))
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Ainsi m'étais-je petit à petit habitué au fait que ma vie avait perdu sa continuité, qu'elle m'était tombée des mains et qu'il ne me resterait plus qu'à commencer enfin à être, même dans mon for intérieur, là où je me trouvais réellement et sans appel.
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Milan Kundera (The Joke)
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Naomi? Can you keep our guest out of the controls for the next minute so we don’t cook our only good Martian?” “Hey, Cap, that’s low,” Alex said with a laugh. Bobbie found it reassuring and terrifying that they could joke at a time like this.
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James S.A. Corey (Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7))
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I’ve learned to always be ready to be disappointed by white people. Doesn’t always happen, but when it does, it don’t shock me anymore. You ain’t the worst I’ve had to deal with,” Ike said. Buddy Lee ran his finger around the rim of his glass. “I ain’t trying make no excuses, but when you grow up around people—your aunts and uncles, your grandparents, your brothers and sisters, your friends—all of them saying things that you don’t even think about being wrong or right, you don’t put that title on yourself. Like you remember when they used to play The Ten Commandants on television every Easter? And there’s this part where this boy tells his granddaddy to look at the Nubians? My granddaddy on my mama’s side would always make this joke about them not being Nubians, they just, well, you know what he said. And I used to laugh at that joke because it was my granddaddy saying it. I never thought, I never had to think how somebody like you would feel about that joke. Then when I got older I stopped thinking about it, because if that joke was fucked up, then what did that say about my granddaddy? What did that say about me that I laughed at it?” Buddy Lee said.
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S.A. Cosby (Razorblade Tears)
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So you do think I’m racist,” Buddy Lee said. “I think maybe for the first time in your life you’re seeing what the world looks like for people that don’t look like you. I mean you still ignorant as hell, but you learning. But then, so am I. We both learning. We both done said and did shit that we wish we could take back. I think if you figure out at one point in your life you was a terrible person, you can start getting better. Start treating people better. Like as long as you wouldn’t laugh at that joke now, I think you on the right road. Same as if the next time I get offered a drink I don’t go the hell off and just walk away, instead of jacking somebody up because they had the nerve to think I was in a gay bar to meet somebody,” Ike said. He held his shot glass up and motioned for the bartender. Buddy Lee downed his shot, too. He gasped as he sat the glass down on the bar. “Goddamn that shit will take the paint off a ball hitch. I guess you’re right. Feels like we waited pretty late in the day to start learning shit,” Buddy Lee said. The bartender brought them two more shots. “Day ain’t over yet,” Ike said.
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S.A. Cosby (Razorblade Tears)
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. Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were very much aware of the boycott’s inherent absurdity:
A city on the Rhine during the boycott: SA men stand in front of Jewish businesses and “warn” passers-by against entering them. Nonetheless, a woman tries to go into a knitting shop.
An SA man stops her and says, “Hey, you. Stay outside. That’s a Jewish shop!”
“So?” replies the woman. “I’m Jewish myself.”
The SA man pushes her back. “Anyone can say that!
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Rudolph Herzog (Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany)
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Miller smiled. All his smiles looked like he was hearing a good joke at a funeral.
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James S.A. Corey (Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1))
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In the past, I often told my Ge that I wanted to kill myself and die. He really wasn’t fun to joke with; once I said that, he would get extremely anxious. When he got alarmingly angry from panic, he would even hit me a few times with a slipper. But now I’m sure that I won’t do that anymore, because for love to exist, there must first be life.
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You Sa (落不下 Can’t Be Left Behind)
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Is this a joke to you?” Dara demanded. “People are dead, and my home is broken.
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S.A. Chakraborty (The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3))