Phlegm the Pelican:

...equals em see squared / to skin a cat, use a sharp flint and start from the tail, although there are other ways / not all kinds of magic can be rolled up and fitted inside a wand / pale is the opposite of dark / the gardener-druids of Flor can grow mosses of every hue and variety on all manner of boulders, stones and pebbles, even rolling ones / the undead generally have no sense of smell / three scrapes of mandrake root pounded in a teaspoon of slug-follow is a cure for bawling children / the hair of mermaids, if not immersed in salt water at least once every hour, becomes dry and unmanageable / free lunches do exist / standard license fees for scrying devices: crystal balls (colour) 4 penkies, crystal balls (black and white) 2 penkies, shimmering pools or telebasins 1 penky, projectors for visions hanging in air 3 shinklings / mind your head in timber-framed houses with low ceilings / two rights do not make a wrong, but in grid-based labyrinths, three can make a left / a good ploughshare cannot be beaten / the Great Copper Pagoda in the elevated courtyard of the mountain Temple to the God of Bet-Hedging Athiests is struck by lightning at least once every week / entropy is...

On the Floppy Disk Landing Pad
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