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41 " The official Government Random Number Generator used for seeding new encryption keys is a thing of legend, running as it does on a type of punched paper tape that hasn’t been manufactured since the 1950s. (We had to invent some really neat hacks using digital cameras to read it into our oldest trailing-edge minicomputers in order to use those numbers . . .) "
― Charles Stross , The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5)
42 " And rumor has it that the Central Ammunition Depot hanging off Box Tunnel still contains two thousand barrels of iron-tipped English longbow arrows, in case it becomes urgently necessary to re-fight the Battle of Crécy. "
43 " Dear God,” whispers Pete, “it’s full of posters! "
44 " Hate the sin, love the sinner: it’s hard to stay pissed off at someone for doing something wrong if you know you’d have done exactly the same thing if you’d been standing in their shoes.) "
45 " And if the common people ever realise that vampires exist, it will be a very short time indeed before naked noonday identity parades are required by law. "
46 " A pair of vampires with clipboards walk into the back of a church in time for evening mass. "