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Georgia
town of Brunswick (where a certain kind of tasty stew had been invented),
He didn’t need the money, but it seemed to Tim that he needed the time.
Great events turn on small hinges.
NIGHT KNOCKER
lookie-loo’s
Wickles
Watch out for men in black cars.
eidetic memory
He read the way free-range cows graze, moving to wherever the grass is greenest.
I do, Eileen thought. Not all the time, but sometimes. Yes. That’s when the plates rattle or the doors shut by themselves.
He looked at the pretty redhead a final time, and as he went in, the barrel shimmied three inches to the left.
life was basically one long SAT test, and instead of four or five choices, you got dozens.
The formula—given in Trees of North America, which he had read one Saturday afternoon when he was ten or so—was pretty simple. There was no need to read the rings. You just estimated the circumference of one of the trees, divided by pi to get the diameter, then multiplied by the average growth factor for North American pines, which was 4.5.
BDNF stood for brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
Rumors were okay. Rumors were self-generated disinformation.
Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling, had died at their desks;
“Chupa mi polla,”
what you did for yourself was what gave you the power.
emoluments.
Sometimes a hug was telepathy.
