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FDV: "Let then the facts speak in their own favour. It was wont to be wittily wagged by the chuckler Mahappy Mahapnot that Lucalizod was the only place in the world where the possible was always improbable and the improbable the inevitable. This implies a sequentiality of impossible probables but nobody who has read up his subject probably in Aristotle will applaud the sentiment or sentence for utterly impossible as are all these events they are probably as like those which happened as any other which never took place at all are ever likely to be.  About that hen, first. Midwinter was in the offing when a poorly clad Shiverer, a mere bantling, observed a cold fowl behaving strangely on the fatal dump at the spot called the orangery when in the course of its deeper demolition it threw up certain fragments of orange peel, the remnant of an outdoor meal of some unknown sunseeker illico in a mistridden past. What child but little Kevin would ever in such a scene have found a motive for future sainthood by euchring the discovery of the Ardagh chalice by another innocent on the seasands near the scene of the massacre of most of the jacobiters."

FDV2: "Let then the facts speak in their own favour. It was wont to be wittily wagged by the stern chuckler Mahappy Mahapnot that Lucalizod was the only place in the world where the possible was always the improbable and the improbable the inevitable. This implies a sequentiality of improbable possibles though possibly nobody who has read up his subject probably in Aristotle will applaud the sentiment or sentence for utterly impossible as are all these events they are probably as like those which took place as any other which never took place at all are ever likely to be.  About that hen, first. Midwinter was in the offing when a poorly clad Shiverer, the merest bantling, observed a cold fowl behaving strangely on the fatal dump at the spot called the orangery when in the course of its deeper demolition it unexpectedly threw up certain fragments of orange peel, the remnant of an outdoor meal of some unknown sunseeker illico in a mistridden past. What child but little Kevin would ever in the desponful atmosphere of such biting cold have found a motive for future saintity by euchring the discovery of the Ardagh chalice by another innocent on the seasands near the scene of the massacre of most of the jacobiters."

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