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+> [Déjà Fu is] A martial art in which the user's limbs move in time as
+> well as space, […] It is best described as "the feeling that you
+> have been kicked in the head this way before"
+>
+> -- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
+
 Concurrency is nice, deadlocks and race conditions not so much. The
 `Par` monad family, as defined in [abstract-par][] provides
 deterministic parallelism, but sometimes we can tolerate a bit of
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 synopsis:            Overloadable primitives for testable, potentially non-deterministic, concurrency.
 
 description:
+  /[Déjà Fu is] A martial art in which the user's limbs move in time as well as space, […] It is best described as "the feeling that you have been kicked in the head this way before"/ -- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
+  .
   Concurrency is nice, deadlocks and race conditions not so much. The
   @Par@ monad family, as defined in
   <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/abstract-par/docs/Control-Monad-Par-Class.html abstract-par>