Light-toned workplace comedy where absolutely everyone is packing major heat the whole way through, it has no relevance to the plot, is never mentioned, ammo lying around on desks, people idly fiddling with safety catches as they chat. The Anti Chekhov's Gun.

One should focus on one's strengths

Truly. Still surprising how well they made a companion piece decades later with Journal for Plague Lovers.

"Sphincter of the Mind's Eye" was Alan Dean Foster's unsuccessful first draft.

The legal department at a previous job of mine had a poster on the wall:

"Dance like nobody is watching. Email like it will one day be read out in a deposition."

Oh it's just Pride and Prejudice, but they fuck?

GIVE ME TEN SEASONS RIGHT NOW.

The whole thing is like somebody read that "everybody is beautiful, nobody is horny" piece from a few years back and went "RIGHT THEN."

Laudatory, to be clear.

As someone who has worked in a couple of large businesses: yep.

They were à mon derrière

I tried and failed to explain pantomime to several French people over Christmas.

The absolute definition of shocking but not surprising

It might be interpreting that as "pornfilms" in fairness

And indeed BEFORE SUNRISE itself will not realize it is THE THING. Until it is too late.

Just don't hit the brakes too hard when you're done.

The Libertines were good but didn't quite fit, too London. Too cool. Having someone our age and genius come along but who's still, well, a bit of a Mardy Bum, it was perfect.