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THE BEAST OF BEAR LAKE Utah is not a state most people associate with lake monsters.

A lot of gifted kids are angels who are on this earth with responsibilities to help others.

Maybe, like, a fang. That would be awesome — a big ol' wolf fang!" Honestly, the things boys think are awesome… "You'd probably love it if it had drool all over it," Amy said.

This cat is dangerous! He has, um — feline — feline spongiform halitosis! It can be fatal to humans!

Touchrue," he muttered in disgust as he glared at the offending shrub.

Hey doll," he growled. "You look like trouble on showgirl legs.

Privilege escalation is akin to freedom, and since I've deduced equality to be irrelevant, winning with no debt is what freedom is all about.

The word 'natural' implies that artificiality is following an algorithm with strict fidelity.

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

country's wealth; religion, the role of the afterlife, which

In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.

For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul.

Is it called naiveté when you're naïve in purpose?

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

You don't understand," I said, adding the most difficult claim of fealty I'd ever made, "That's my son.

I'd no idea that you'd prove such an able apprentice. You were sure to be a journalist, in which case the chances were terribly high that you'd also be a prat.

Why would I not know the context?" He took a single swallow from his glass. "I am the context." He put the glass on the counter, and left. I'm certain of it: that moment, that hard swallow, is when he decided.

She had joined the loamy, misshapen tubers on the living room sofa.

To truly pull off proper apathy about the stuff (money) would require so much energy, such contrived ideological zealotry, that the indifference would amount to a kind of caring.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.

Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick. —SINGLE-MINDED