Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.'-Thaddeus
Captain, sir,' called Coster from the rear of the shed. 'Cleared to shit.''Proceed,' Fa'ared called back.The Preceptor glared at Coster. 'Can you not wait?
Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bi...
If every man who wrote a story which was indirectly inspired by Poe were to pay a tithe towards a monument, Doyle later mused, it would be such as would dwarf the pyramids.
I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases. It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.
THE YOUNG carpenter miserably regarded his fellow inmates. Some had been confined for so long that nobody even knew why they were there anymore. One wild-looking blind and insane man known as Paul fro...
Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves the cause: it is because he loves the rabies
Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in This is a variation on that twee little fable t...
When Jules Verne was on everyone’s nightstand, Pulitzer ordered daredevil reporter Nellie Bly to travel around the world in eighty days; she accomplished it in seventy-two.
Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. … But autism … is as much about what is abundant as what is missing, an over-expression of the very traits that make our speci...
The assembly proceeded to the new grave that would come to serve as a burial place for Edgar, Virginia, and Aunt Maria, reuniting the peculiar household that been Poe’s sorrow and solace in life. Ther...
…I had a good title already. My book was originally called Loser: A Brief History of Notable Failures. But American publishers don’t like this. Losing is a bad thing in our country. It’s not allowed.
If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: To readers who do not care for such things, this lettering tells them:
How can we expect that the illiterate and benighted child of want will remain faithful . . . when he in whose breast the lamp of science brightly burns is found derelict?
For more fortunate readers, it reminded them that the action of the clytoris in women is like that of a penis to man, and the key to brifk and vigorous enjoyments—especially with cares and thoughts of...
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But this much is known: Hamilton shot into the trees. Burr, leveling his pistol at his foe, did not.
What you mean to find matters less than what you do find.
Put the penis schematic away, he told the coroner.
And yet something unsettling remained about the notion of John Pastano as a willful murderer: the recollection, perhaps, that after murdering Mary Castro, he had filled his hat with her blood and wand...
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