His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as…

Terry Pratchett
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His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2009). Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34), p.405, Random House
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His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2009). Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34), p.405, Random House

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