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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions docs/times/01_00.json
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"title": "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul",
"author": "Douglas Adams",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "01:00",
"quote_first": "Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler had wandered off and was doing a busy trade with those late-night revelers who were too drunk to prevent optimism triumphing over experience; anyone who bought a meal at ",
"quote_time_case": "one a.m.",
"quote_last": " after a night’s reveling was probably going to be riotously ill anyway, so they might as well have something to show for it.",
"title": "Moving Pictures",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "01:00",
"quote_first": "Being caught at ",
"quote_time_case": "one A.M.",
"quote_last": " in a bank’s deposit vault while wearing a black suit with lots of little pockets in it could be considered suspicious, so why do it?",
"title": "Going Postal",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish",
"author": "Douglas Adams",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "01:59",
"quote_first": "Ponder must have nodded off, because he was awakened ",
"quote_time_case": "just before two A.M.",
"quote_last": " by a scream and realized he was face down in half of his supper.",
"title": "The Last Continent",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Brothers Karamazov",
"author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "02:00",
"quote_first": "They couldn’t pin anything on Moist, but in the cold, wet light of ",
"quote_time_case": "two a.m.",
"quote_last": ", he could imagine bloody Commander Vimes worrying at this, picking away at it in that thick-headed way of his.",
"title": "Making Money",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Middlemarch",
"author": "George Eliot",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "03:00",
"quote_first": "“Fred, the finest tradition of the Watch is having a quiet smoke somewhere out of the wind at ",
"quote_time_case": "three a.m.",
"quote_last": " Let’s not get carried away, eh?”",
"title": "Jingo",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "03:00",
"quote_first": "THERE ARE TIMES when you just have to miss a night’s sleep. But Ankh-Morpork never slept; the city never did more than doze, and would wake up around ",
"quote_time_case": "three A.M",
"quote_last": ". for a glass of water.",
"title": "Going Postal",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Forever Amber",
"author": "Kathleen Windsor",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "03:01",
"quote_first": "It wasn’t exactly whiskey, and it wasn’t exactly gin, but it was exactly 90° proof, and a great comfort during those worrying moments that sometimes occurred ",
"quote_time_case": "around 3 A.M.",
"quote_last": " when you woke up and forgot who you were.",
"title": "Lords and Ladies",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Children of Men",
"author": "P.D. James",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "03:02",
"quote_first": "“I don’t know why you think your life has been so bad,” he said. “We had a lot of fun when we were younger. Hey, do you remember the time when we went over the edge of the world?”<br>“Often,” said Rincewind. “Usually ",
"quote_time_case": "around 3 A.M.",
"quote_last": "”",
"title": "Interesting Times",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Hasheesh Eater",
"author": "Fitz Hugh Ludlow",
"sfw": "no"
},
{
"time": "04:00",
"quote_first": "Corporal Carrot awoke around ",
"quote_time_case": "four a.m.",
"quote_last": ", that secret hour known only to the night people, such as criminals, policemen and other misfits. He lay on his half of the narrow bed and stared at the wall.",
"title": "Men at Arms",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "04:00",
"quote_first": "Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he’s woken up in a panic at ",
"quote_time_case": "4:00 A.M.",
"quote_last": ", it’s that he’s not alone.",
"title": "Good Omens",
"author": "Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Vanity Fair",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "05:00",
"quote_first": "Any watcher trained in reading body language would have been prepared to bet that, after the click, someone was going to suggest that they might as well go somewhere and have a few drinks, and then someone else would fancy a meal, and then there was always room for a few more drinks, and then it would be ",
"quote_time_case": "5 a.m.",
"quote_last": " and the city guards would be respectfully knocking on the University gates and asking if the Archchancellor would care to step down to the cells to identify some alleged wizards who were singing an obscene song in six-part harmony, and perhaps he would also care to bring some money to pay for all the damage.",
"title": "Moving Pictures",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "05:00",
"quote_first": "The rain was a solid curtain when he finally staggered out into the gray light of dawn. The gutters overflowed. Along the rooftops, repulsive gargoyles threw up expertly over passers-by although, since it was now ",
"quote_time_case": "five a.m.",
"quote_last": ", the crowds had thinned out a bit.",
"title": "Moving Pictures",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Shall We Tell the President?",
"author": "Jeffrey Archer",
"sfw": "no"
},
{
"time": "06:47",
"quote_first": "The time was ",
"quote_time_case": "6:47",
"quote_last": ". Jeremy glanced at the alarm clocks to make sure they were right, then pulled his dressing gown around him and hurried downstairs.",
"title": "Thief of Time",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Girl Who Played with Fire",
"author": "Stieg Larsson",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "06:59",
"quote_first": "There was a row of alarm clocks on the table by Jeremy’s bed. He did not need them, because he woke up when he wanted to. They were there for testing. He set them for seven, and woke up at ",
"quote_time_case": "6:59",
"quote_last": " to check that they went off on time.",
"title": "Thief of Time",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Crime and Punishment",
"author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "07:00",
"quote_first": "He approved of the milkman, because he was regular and punctual and had the bottles at the doorstep every morning on the stroke of ",
"quote_time_case": "7 A.M",
"quote_last": "",
"title": "Thief of Time",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Adventure of the Speckled Band",
"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "07:15",
"quote_first": "This strange loop has a curious effect on causality. We get up in the morning and leave the house at ",
"quote_time_case": "7.15",
"quote_last": " because we have to get to work by 9 o’clock. Scientifically, this is a very bizarre form of causality: the future is affecting the past.",
"title": "The Globe",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Death in Venice",
"author": "Thomas Mann",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "08:00",
"quote_first": "Crowley liked the city in the early morning. Its population consisted almost entirely of people who had proper jobs to do and real reasons for being there, as opposed to the unnecessary millions who trailed in after ",
"quote_time_case": "8 A.M.",
"quote_last": ", and the streets were more or less quiet.",
"title": "Good Omens",
"author": "Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance",
"author": "Robert M. Pirsig",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "08:30",
"quote_first": "He woke up at ",
"quote_time_case": "half past eight",
"quote_last": ", read the accumulated papers, and voided a small scream. All right, all right, he thought. There is no actual hurry, as such. We can change it back any time we like. That’s what time travel means.",
"title": "Darwin's Watch",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day",
"author": "Winifred Watson",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "09:15",
"quote_first": "It was one of the new-fangled pocket watches, with hands. They pointed to a ",
"quote_time_case": "quarter past nine",
"quote_last": ". He shook it. A small hatch opened under the 12 and a very small demon poked its head out and said, “Knock it off, guv’nor, I’m pedalling as fast as I can.”",
"title": "Reaper Man",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Sportswriter",
"author": "Richard Ford",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "10:30",
"quote_first": "“About one hundred and sixty, since the Schism of ",
"quote_time_case": "ten-thirty A.M.",
"quote_last": ", February twenty-third. That was when the Re-United Free Chelonianists (Hubward Convocation) split from the Re-United Free Chelonianists (Rimward Convocation). It was rather serious.”",
"title": "Carpe Jugulum",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Party and Other Stories",
"author": "Anton Pavlovich Chekhov",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "11:01",
"quote_first": "Not many people were on the streets. It was too hot, even for an Ankh-Morpork summer. Heat radiated from every surface. The river slunk sullenly in the bottom of its bed, like a student ",
"quote_time_case": "around 11 A.M.",
"quote_last": "",
"title": "Men at Arms",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
"author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "11:15",
"quote_first": "The clock said ",
"quote_time_case": "quarter past eleven",
"quote_last": ".<br>Vimes walked over to the door and, despite precedent, knocked gently.<br>There was no sound from within, no murmur of distant voices.<br>He tried the handle. The door was unlocked.<br>Lord Vetinari had always said that punctuality was the politeness of princes.<br>Vimes went in.",
"title": "Feet of Clay",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Voices of Time",
"author": "J.G. Ballard",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "15:15",
"quote_first": "Women weren’t allowed in the club at all except under Rule Thirty-four B, which grudgingly allowed for female members of the family or respectable married ladies over thirty to be entertained to tea in the Green Drawing Room between ",
"quote_time_case": "3:15",
"quote_last": " and 4:30 P.M., provided at least one member of staff was present at all times.",
"title": "Thief of Time",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "15:15",
"quote_first": "You couldn’t remember every little thing. Wednesday: 3 P.M., reign of terror; ",
"quote_time_case": "3:15 P.M.",
"quote_last": ", clean out scorpion pit…",
"title": "Feet of Clay",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "Occupied City",
"author": "David Peace",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "15:20",
"quote_first": "“The trouble is, because the blasted thing can see everywhere, it’s practically impossible to get it to see anywhere. At least, anywhere worth seeing. And you’d be amazed at how many places there are in the universe. And times, too.”<br>“",
"quote_time_case": "Twenty past one",
"quote_last": ", for example,” said the Patrician.",
"title": "The Last Hero",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Constantine Codex",
"author": "Paul L. Maier",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "19:05",
"quote_first": "The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork sat back on his austere chair with the sudden bright smile of a very busy person at the end of a crowded day who’s suddenly found in his schedule a reminder saying: 7:00-",
"quote_time_case": "7:05",
"quote_last": ", Be Cheerful and Relaxed and a People Person.",
"title": "Men at Arms",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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"title": "The Four Million",
"author": "O. Henry",
"sfw": "yes"
},
{
"time": "20:32",
"quote_first": "The origins of the Ankh-Morpork Civil War (",
"quote_time_case": "8:32 p.m.",
"quote_last": ", Grune 3,432—10:45 a.m., Grune 4,432) have always been a subject of heated debate among historians.",
"title": "Moving Pictures",
"author": "Terry Pratchett",
"sfw": "yes"
}
]
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