The list given here is far from complete and has been truncated to keep the book finite in size.
And sometimes when people and physical objects fail to perform normally, the fix is to locate a broken or depleted part or parts, and repair or replace them.
The Smurfs signify smallness; the Care Bears, niceness; the Wuzzles, fuzziness; and the My Little Ponies, simple-mindedness. The imagery is fairly consistent.
The number of things that can be raised and lowered or operated at a distance via pulley systems is greater than I would have ever dreamed.
How are Infernomancers different from Necromancers?! They aren’t, and it drives you mad!
“Textual scholarship”: it doesn’t exactly sound seductive, but I found myself seduced.
The faculty sherry parties had a lot to do with it: watching my fellow graduate students suck up to Harold Bloom and the other stars of the department, their sherry-flushed faces perspiring from the damp mothball-mildew warmth of their tweeds.
We had been talking in Rick’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, sitting room (which was presided over by a portrait of Empson in his distinctive neck beard) about the criteria for greatness in literature.
At about 1:30 a.m., a family of hippos, represented by light gray H’s, swam into the tunnels from a nearby river. Their arrival was an unintended development born entirely of the game’s internal logic. Tarn was pleased. “The hippos like the sewers!” he said. He took a celebratory swig of Dr. Pepper and rocked back and forth.
Revive the God that sleeps on the moon, and he will guide the most righteous people to Utopia.