'Sign of Three Lemons,' said the boy. 'Best in the city, lord, lady ( Read more... )

The closet was a shallow cavity with a wooden rod braced across, a faded cretonne curtain on a string closing it off from the rest of the room. In the closet hung two pairs of jeans crease-ironed and folded neatly over wire hangers, on the floor a pair of worn packer boots he thought he remembered. At the north end of the closet a tiny jog in the ( Read more... )

I wonder sometimes if there is perhaps more sympathy due to 'evil' than 'good'. Is there more hope for evil? Good, by its very definition, must be wholly good - and that requires a sort of blind fanaticism, doesn't it? A single minded purpose that will crush anything in it's way - it's striving path towards ultimate 'good'. I often feel that ( Read more... )

Last night we had decided not to go along to the 9am opening at Readings because, well, it was at 9am (We had experienced a moment of elation when we misread the party poster and thought it said 9pm, but alas, no such luck) Anyway, I woke up at 8:51, and was suddenly consumed by a burning desire to wear a sparkly scarf and squee along with the rest ( Read more... )

1) The number of books I've owned?Well...I have two bookcases filled to bursting in my room, a few bags filled with books under my bed, half my wardrobe is full of books, and there are a couple of suitcases in the garage stuffed with the books that I couldn’t manage to balance precariously on top of the books already balanced precariously in ( Read more... )

In the Abbé's novel, she explained, the notion was put forth by one of the characters that the human soul might be found in the hair and fingernails. It is a well-known fact that both continue to grow after death, and this astonishing fact could be attributed to a residue of the divine spark. She quoted the novel from memory, he was dismayed to see ( Read more... )

"Cassilines aren't fit for the Long Road," he said, "Not when it extends over sea ( Read more... )

What is Longing that it never lets go? Would that joy could grip us so ( Read more... )

E elinguation
1. In law, punishment by elinguating.

(elinguate To remove the tongue from; and ancient mode of punishment. [Obs.])

Whilst flicking through the dictionary trying to find elisor, I said: "Gods! How terrifying. One hopes the practise is obsolete as well as the word."