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2023. First read in a library hardback in early 2024, then re-read in this library Kindle edition in August and September 2024 to discuss with Geeks Read on 9/3/24. The author is, as always (I read Fuzzy National and The Kaiju Preservation Society with enjoyment and admiration), assured, imaginative, fun-loving, and has many likable characters (both human and non-human).
The narrator is wonderful - insouciant, focused, chatty, humorous, culturally with it (Steve Jobs’ cancer, big banks buying small banks,
With a wise and witty aide-de-camp and puppet-master Mathilda Morrison, see her introduction to the narrator, chs. 2&3, pp. 19-30.
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“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.
That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."
If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.”
― Oliver Twist
That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."
If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.”
― Oliver Twist
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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