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“I am not going to call the alien brain I am stuck inside of by the name I am totally buggered—this damnified thing is in my brain like a devil from hell—and it is reading my thoughts, eating my goddamn mind! AAARRGH! For one thing, it is too long.” Perhaps it could be called simply AAARRGH! That…” quote by John C. Wright — Download Open image

““I am not going to call the alien brain I am stuck inside of by the name I am totally buggered—this damnified thing is in my brain like a devil from hell—and it is reading my thoughts, eating my goddamn mind! AAARRGH! For one thing, it is too long.” Perhaps it could be called simply AAARRGH! That was much shorter.””

John C. Wright

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