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Flambeau had known Quinton in wild student days in Paris, and they had renewed the acquaintance for a week-end; but apart from Flambeau’s more respon…

Mine is a simple system. I read from morning till bedtime, with breaks for my job, my family, meetings with friends, exercise, household chores and p…

A chicken lived every situation, every moment, like it was brand-new, and so lived in a constant state of wonder and surprise. "It's hard to…

It is the food of the high places, of the foothills, pine barrens, and slow brown rivers. It is not something done by the great chefs of Atlanta or B…

My uncle Jimbo is not a gourmet, or an unbiased and veracious critic; he once ate a bologna sandwich sitting on a dead mule, to win a bet, and can ou…

I should have known something was very wrong when the Mules started flying erratically. Twelve Fair Kingdoms by Suzette Haden Elgin You've go…

This is a story about magic and where it goes and perhaps more importantly where it comes from and why, although it doesn't pretend to answer al…

"Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. Rose Macaulay, The Towers of…

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. Mark Twain, A…

The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher Do you think he makes those sorts of huge mistakes? Or gets blam…

Johnny never knew for certain why he started seeing the dead. Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett A great first line from the  Johnny Maxwel…