from THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE by Mónica de la Torre
a) Makes a thoughtful Christmas gift.
Beware and handle with care. Boxes
may damage the wings....
from 12 MORAL QUESTIONS by David Byrne
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Ignore him, as it's not really worth making a scene. Shout out "Hey Buddy, the end of the line is back there." Reciprocate, and cut in front of him.... |
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from THE BENEFIT OF DOUBT by Matt Freedman
When I was about eight years old, my father decided to write a novel. He had a plan. He would write three pages a day, and take it one day at a time.
"It'll pile up like magic," he said, "and presto! I'll have a book. If I start today, I'll have over five hundred pages in six months. How hard will it be? Maybe an hour a day. A major novel in a year, a thousand pages! If I double my output, half a year. Painless. An hour a day."
The book he decided to write was War and Peace, which he considered the greatest novel ever written, although he had never read the thing. He wrote it in the original Russian, although he had never studied the language. He bought a huge two-volume illustrated set from a Russian-language bookstore, and a dozen spiral notebooks from the local stationery shop. he copied the Cyrillic print into his notebooks, and copied the illustrations as well.
"If I am going to write a novel, I might as well write a great one," he said. "I may be only the second person to write this particular book, but that's still pretty select company...."
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