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Alice was not aimed at changing anyone's mind. There is no moralizing or didactic aspect to Alice and Through the Looking Glass. Both are nonsense satires which lampoon adults but make no attempt to instruct children and are nearly absent of sentimentality. This was revolutionary in children's fiction and allowed for the maturation of the genre.

A bum wanders and drinks. A tramp wanders and dreams. A hobo wanders and works.

And what she loved about Lydia's play: that it gets at this idea that true sacrifice is painless.

An ignorant orange grifter was elected president and turned science denial into official government position.

You can always spot the real thing, that affection; why does it always come from the wrong person?

the water. The feral cats scattered before her.

But Jules hated the missionaries and said cruelty and hope should never be served together.

Why then does the civil rights establishment avoid addressing the real problems causing black suffering? Because deep down, they are more angry at white people than they are in love with black people.

She'll need to see another goddamn place, then, because the roaches have unionized and put a stop to further negotiations regarding new tenants. Also, I think I smell a dead body.

She'll need to see another goddamn place, then, because the roaches have unionized and put a stop to further negotiations regarding new tenants. Also, I think I smell a dead body.

protesting, but she refused to let go. "Aha!" She squinted at his shirt.

I have externalized the chaotic events of the day, and now I can return to my normal stasis.

I had expected the turnip metaphor to go over better, but it seems not everyone appreciates a clever philosophically grounded root vegetable reference.

Germany was being run by a loudmouthed rabble-rouser, bent on baiting other nations to war and making life miserable for countless innocent citizens. And here they were, drinking champagne and dancing to Scott Joplin.

Too much information, and yet, in her case, not enough. In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

I don't know, he said, handing her the ticket. He'd been standing there all the while on the sidewalk, waiting for her. Waiting, until they were in the darkness of the theatre, to take her hand.

The nickname had irritated and pleased her at the same time. It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her he had claimed her somehow, already made her his own.

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

It has been said by many that the risk, for the author who self-translates, is to rewrite more than translate, given that there are no rules to obey when the only authority is oneself. What is the meaning of obedience, of faithfulness, when the other does not exist. 57

He was slightly plump, scholarly-looking but still youthful, with black thick-framed glasses and a sharp, prominent nose.

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.