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• Suddenly a sinister, wraithlike figure, cloaked and hooded, appears seeming to float in the air before you.
  In a low, almost inaudible voice he says, "I welcome you to the ranks of the chosen of Zork....
• Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
  -- Matt Groening...
• You can't spank the monkey if he's on your back.
• The staff suddenly becomes very cold and dark.
• What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking.
  .. and suddenly you wake up. -- Hobbe...
• There is a wicked Necromancer in the room with you named Melkor.
  He is is very dangerous and I would advise you to get away quickly, unless you you know the magic spell to rid the cave of his presence....
• If your father told you he could determine the sex of a puppy by looking at the bottoms of its feet, he was lying.
• Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will
  but hear." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• You are not a hard driving person if you suddenly stop looking for work after you have found a job.