“It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.”
“NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!”
“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.”
“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...”
“It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.”
“Black_Venus: Here it goes:Curious mosaicContinental driftParabolic metaphorElemental riftTime and transpositionConscious intermissionAssertion?Desertion --Black_Venus: That's all I have so far. You finish it.Me: How about "Spanish Inquisition.”