Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates: A Novel

by Tom Robbins

“There’s birth,” he grumbled, “there’s death, and in between there’s maintenance.”

“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”

the numinous emerald breath of the forest lay gently against the town’s whitewashed cheeks, while the river here serenaded the citizenry with an open-throated warble instead of a cancer-clogged rattle of death.