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Dinner at Sir Nigel's is a raucous, sexy affair.

Letters from an angry old man

An angel comes down, not from heaven, but space and stumbles into modern day mass. She does not like it and pushes the priest.

Kathleen, the poet, has a son, moves to Morocco, raises a sheep, kills said sheep

"I think a warning sign of creeping senility is the shortening of the attention span, which strikes me as a form of regression to childhood."

"At this point his euphoria destroyed his common sense. The neat display of little glasses on the shelves of his refrigerator seemed to him irresistible, and he began to imagine that his European acquaintances would find them equally attractive. "

"Julian Vreden's story is a classical and uniquely American tale of revenge."

Peacocks or a woman dying? Another long sentence.

That is one long sentence.