How come God has to make it so tough for you? We must not question His ways, Ignatius said. Maybe not, but I still don’t get it. The writings of Boethius may give you some insight. I read Father Kelle...
I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I’ll pour water on her.
I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dea...
Ignatius spent the day in his room napping fitfully and attacking his rubber glove during his frequent, anxious moments of consciousness.
In other words, you want to become totally bourgeois. You people have all been brainwashed. I imagine that you'd like to become a success or something equally vile.
Lana started to make sounds, like the imprecations of a priestess, over the bills that the boy had given her. Whispered numerals and words floated upward from her coral lips, and, closing her eyes, sh...
Merchants and charlatans gained control of Europe, calling their insidious gospel The Enlightenment. The day of the locust was at hand, but from the ashes of humanity there arose no Phoenix. The humbl...
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.
No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.
She had driven him downtown in the old Plymouth, and while she was at the doctor's seeing about her arthritis, Ignatius had bought some sheet music at Werlein's for this trumpet and a new string for h...
She offered Patrolman Mancuso a torn and oily cake box that looked as if it had been subjected to unusual abuse during someone's attempt to take all of the doughnuts at once. At the bottom of the box...
The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don’t like new cars and hair sprays. That’s why they are put away. They make the other members of the society fearful. Every asylum in this...
They would try to make me into a moron who liked television and new cars and frozen food. Don't you understand? Psychiatry is worse than communism. I refuse to be brainwashed. I won't be a robot!
This is a floral abortion,' Ignatius commented irritably and tapped the vase with his cutlas. 'Dyed flowers are unnatural and perverse and, I suspect, obscene also. I can see that I am going to have m...
What is your opinion of a society that considers Turkey in the Straw to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?
What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude? That sounds like a communiss to me. Mrs. Reilly’s worst fears were realized.
Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?
Ignatius, was you wearing that cap when you spoke to the insurance man? Of course I was. That office was improperly heated. I don’t know how the employees of that company manage to stay alive e...
Do you think that I have a problem? Ignatius bellowed. The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hairsprays. That why they are put away. They make the other m...
El señor González, mi «jefe», aunque sea bastante cretino, resulta, sin embargo, bastante agradable. Parece que siempre está atemorizado, demasiado, desde luego, para criticar la tarea de cualquier tr...
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