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"Oh, I watched him all right. I watched him like a mouse."

"The beauty of his theory is that it's not just unrestrained by probability but immune to proof, given that the site is currently occcupied by St. Paul's Cathedral and thus not likely to be excavated any time soon."
-- Rateliff, "'To Recall Forgotten Gods from their Twilight': J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Name Nodens"

PENELOPE
In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the world and sky are one,
He shall ride the silver seas,
He shall cut the glittering wave.
I shall sit at home, and rock;
Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock;
Brew my tea, and snip my thread;
Bleach the linen for my bed.
They will call him brave.

One occasionally sighs for a Jeeves or a Beach; one never sighs for a Horace.

"Unfortunately, one occasionally discovers from time to time (and in some cases not long after the ink on the contract is dry) that one has been tossed into a lifeboat with wounded people who have been using the medium of filmmaking to either exorcise their demons or air their dirty laundry or other hang-ups in public."

ch 1: "As soon as I hung up the phone I immediately started having an anxiety attack. Was Rob [Reiner] serious? Maybe he offers roles to all the actors he meets to make them feel better?"

In the "Could Have Been a Very Short Life" department: "[A]s a young boy, I cut my brother's single-volume paperback of The Lord of the Rings into three books, and made new covers for each one, with illustrations and nicely lettered titles. A lifetime's love of these worlds had begun."

-Daniel Reeve, "Uncharted Territory"