He feels sure that it is really “speaking about the Garden of Eden,” and decides that he must go to what he thinks of as “the very center of the world, the place where matters were actually decided, where things happened, a place such as Rome had been, ancient Rome, where decisions had been made and events set in motion, to find that place and then quit everything.” He decides that this place is New York. There he will publish the manuscript by typing it up and posting it on the Internet. Then, he thinks, his life will come to an end.

I felt like one of the loser sperms you see in Swedish documentaries shot inside the reproductive tract, one of the members of the shining herd, who only gets halfway up a fallopian tube when the Time Gentlemen bell is rung announcing that some other particle has made it to the ovum and the game is over.

Indeed he kills many creatures in the forest, both ogres that deserve it and monkeys that do not.

On a coconut tree the fruit is constantly forming.

The Futurama universe is assumed to be exactly identical to ours except where the show explicitly diverges from reality.

The human penis is a thing like a marmoset or some other unruly small pet they carry around with them.

They don’t know it, but the reason people are so pro bird is because ninety-five percent of bird species are monogamous.

Use the interplay of macro- and micro-enchantment to find jobs and get promoted.

Cagliastro writes about having an “Eternal Portal” open to ghosts at all times, so they’re constantly coming into her house and her bedroom and whining to her and wanting her to solve their problems, which she does. That’s very generous of her, of course, but it’s not really anything I’m looking to get involved with.

There are four modes: “normal,” “athletic,” “aggressive,” and “furtive.”