And he laid her down there, and saw the pride of his heart and the triumph of his system, lying, an insensible heap, at his feet.
This is on page 254 of Hard Times and pretty much sums up what was, for Dickens, a 342 page piece of flash fiction.
It was a bit of a trick kwiz because a and b were the correct answers. For you see, Mencken’s barber took that picture of him. And by the haircut, you can see that Mencken had ample reason to hate the barber.
H. L., the famous misanthrope, hated for good reason:
a. his barber.
b. the guy he’s looking at in the picture above.
c. everybody with the possible exception of a cabdriver he once encountered in Washington D.C.
d. the upper crust, the lower crust, and all the crusts in between.
e. being interrupted when he was typing.
Sensible leaves don’t just fling themselves to the ground. They carefully lower themselves on braided strands.
This year I’m having my property defended by attack gifts. Why, only yesterday these three successfully challenged and mauled a trespassing band of ocelots.
Turn right at the corner of Purple and Gaudy. Proceed uphill to the domicile
Loon: Welcome to the 3 Question Interview With a Celebrity Ghost, the show that interviews a celebrity ghost by asking 3 questions. Today’s guest is Harpo Marx. Harpo, were you the oldest, the youngest, or some other rank among the 5, 8, or 10 brothers?
The ghost of Harpo Marx: ………. (nods eagerly)
Loon: Well, which?
The ghost of Harpo Marx: ………. (nods eagerly)
Loon: Let’s try something else. Where’s your harp?
The ghost of Harpo Marx: ………. (nods eagerly, dissipates)
Loon: That went better than I thought it would. Why do I suddenly realize that an elephant’s Tuscaloosa in Alabama. I’d go home to mother if I had one. A home or a mother. (waggles eyebrows)
‘Father,’ he cried, after seeing the critics’ chewing, ‘Forgive them, for they know not what I am doing.’
Though she did give out salmon jerky on one memorable Halloween, Marie’s strangest behavior took place every summer during the decade of the 1890s when she spent 8 to 10 weeks roaming the Canadian Rockies in the company of three surly grizzly bear brothers. Any questions put to her later about those times were answered with a half smile, an upward gaze, and a sigh.
A Canuck through and through, Marie:
a. often tended goal for her hometown’s hockey team.
b. roamed the wilderness every summer with her posse of grizzly bears.
c. was the toughest lumberjack in all the western provinces.
d. went into a feeding frenzy whenever she heard The Maple Leaf Rag.
e. gave out salmon jerky to children on every Halloween.
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