Thief of Time - Direction

'... and then I thought, what's a job that really needs someone with my talents?' said Ronnie. 'To me, time is just another direction. And then I thought, everyone wants fresh milk, yes? And everyone wants it delivered early in the morning.'

'Got to be better than the window-cleaning,' said Lu-Tze.

'I only went into that after they invented windows,' said Ronnie. 'It was the gardening before that. More rancid yak butter in that?’

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