“I don’t see anybody on the horizon, except for Matt Salmon, throwing their hat in the ring intending to do more than paddle water.”

Boccaccio’s Friar Cipolla sold one of the Angel Gabriel’s feathers which he said had fallen in the Virgin’s chamber during the Annunciation.  As satire, this did not overreach the real friar who sold a piece of the bush from which the Lord spoke to Moses.

At the same time, the heart of the novel contains a story about the changing needs of love. A woman with interesting ears is replaced by a woman wearing interesting spectacles.

Thus he must fashion himself into a new sort of fighter – “a new zoological terror, in which the polar bear, the nimble and cool tiger and the fox are blended into a unity as attractive as it is awe-inspiring.”

I’m marooned in a desolate bubble of extrachronological space, without company or apparent hope of rescue.

The relation of the OP to the PP can be briefly stated by saying that the Organic Plane consists of autonomous fluent forms manifested in substance of the Physical Plane.

The Templars were accused by suborned witnesses of bestiality, idol-worship, denial of the sacraments; of selling their souls to the Devil and adoring him in the form of a huge cat; of sodomy with each other and intercourse with demons and succubi; of requiring initiates to deny God, Christ, and the Virgin, to spit three times, urinate, and trample on the cross, and to give the “kiss of shame” to the prior of the Order on the mouth, penis, and buttocks.

If you love the scenery, shifting allegiances, and palace intrigue of [Game of Thrones] but find yourself wishing the pace were a little slower and that the sex scenes were filmed in a more pretentious manner with lots of slow pans and softer lighting, here’s your show.

A common pain medication might make you go from “so cute!” to “so what?” when you look at a photo of a kitten.

What is up with leftists and giant papier-mâché puppets of doom?