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He lifted the band out and over Eric's penis before bringing it down

Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.

The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in which some people would have seen nothing but tedium and emptiness, she stepped forth as an author, breathing gaiety and youth, robed in dazzling light.

This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of art will pass away into the domination of those who think that a good picture can be painted only if the artist's political views record with theirs, and that it is only possible to write a good novel provided the author follows the rules they have laid down.

Tolkien said that you shouldn't leave a dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.

No; eternal slavery rather than be regarded with distrust by those whose respect I esteemed.

Katharine Briggs's comprehensive The Fairies in Tradition and Literature.

The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")

Durrant stopped off at a commissary of sorts to pick up a selection of his favorite snacks.

If EVACC is a sort of ark, Griffith becomes its Noah, though one on extended duty, since already he's been at things a good deal longer than forty days.

The name is trademarked

One of Crutzen's fellow Nobelists reportedly came home from his lab one night and told his wife

Her ruddy brown skin had the texture of pebbled linoleum.

Suci, a Sumatran rhino, lives at the Cincinnati Zoo

If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution.

Marion Woodman—the great Jungian analyst and author—says that we come to the mythic Crossroads during "moments in our lives where the unconscious crosses consciousness; where the eternal crosses the transitory; where a higher will demands the surrender of our egos.

Don't trust a writer who gives out advice. Writers are suckers for pretty turns of phrase with only the ring of truth.

But Jeptha was so amiably stupid everybody was the smartest man he ever met. It was a worldwide tie.

McCracken's latest novel straddles the line between fiction and memoir, though she rejects the term "autofiction" as sounding "like it might be written by a robot, or a kiosk, or a European.

Love Poem for a Librarian Although her love for me is infinitesimal, Her eyes are as Dewey as any old decimal.

Truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research.

Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, "because that's the only way to motivate expenditure on them - such as buying traps or guns. It's the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.

And yet - with those well-marked whiskers, and that topcoat, and the notable scruff, a squirrel who cared and followed you everywhere - wouldn't that be nice?

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.