‘It’s December,’ said Hamlin ‘Purgatory’ Rosencrans, writhing in hallucinatory anticipation. ‘The seams have been torn. I’m allowed to enter. Open, I tell you.’ ‘Boxcar’ Blevins, keeper of the door, blinked his eye. His brain quivered under the strain of trying to form a thought. ‘You tell me open. I not bash you?’ Blevins managed to […]
Zebulon Sisselthacket removed his scarf with a flamboyant gesture of defiance, looking around first to make certain he was alone in the cloakroom. Then he flung the shoddy rag to the floor, stifling a sob. ‘What’s going on in there, Sisslethacket? Come out at once and take what’s coming to you,’ boomed the voice of […]
a stunning achievement, I suppose characters true to life, if you like that sort of thing intricate plot unspools with effervescent clarity, although eliciting the occasional nap
It made her wake with a jolt and she saw that a wand of afternoon sun had squeezed through the curtains and warmed her neck. I really like that ‘wand of afternoon sun’ from Boyd’s Restless.
Advice from a choirmaster often lauded for his merry disposition – ‘One should start each day with a short burst of random obscenities to cleanse the palate.’
Mildred, the Information Gathering Platypus, waddled into the swamp, gathering information as she went. Water density, insect count, and slop distribution were among the items she tallied and tucked away into the folds of her efficient mind. She paused in alarm when she noticed a cream colored 1948 Studebaker automobile hovering nearby. ‘Here now,’ she […]
As a youth, Charles Darwin: a. collected sand. b. thought more clearly when standing on his hands in the garden. c. was the local blacksmith’s benign nemesis. d. sometimes got up from the table and wandered off in the middle of a meal as if in a daze.
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5 of 5 stars to The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton goodreads.com/review/show/55…
