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You call this book garbage? You must be a creature of another world.

Today in Amazon review comment threads

The move prompted outrage in the Twitterverse, where users derided it as “foolishness” and “colonization.”

Stable manager Phillip Casey says Martin Weitzman, Harvard University’s Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics, has been stealing manure from Charlie Lane’s Rockport farm for years.

Place a swarm of bees at his ears.  Bees love truth and will destroy the deceiver’s lies.

The behavioral “despair” test is widely used to study antidepressants, mainly on the theoretical assumption that the test animal becomes desperate. In view of the above, we compared behavior of animals subjected to various experimental conditions (4, 15, 30 cm of water), in order to assess whether or not “despair” was the cause of immobility.

He says that somewhere on a mountain with a storybook name there grows a tree which bears sheet music instead of fruit and the music is far superior to any other.

People have always found it useful to put things into bins.

He was fond of snakes, and not only kept a round dozen or so in his room, but also usually had two or three coiled around him under his loose flannel shirt.  When you were talking with him you were likely to see a snake’s head emerge from his shirt-front and work its tongue at you in a sinister fashion.

To get over the difficulty I shall adopt the convention of using “to Wayland” for the verb which occurs on almost every page of Eros Denied, and “Young (m)” and “Young (f)” for the almost as frequently referred to male and female organs. Thus, to illustrate the usage, one might say: “Inserting his Young (m) in her Young (f) he Waylanded her good and proper.”

I recall him now as one whom experience had shown, as it showed Montaigne, that human beings are very much what they are, that the collective character of their society is very much what it is, and that nothing of any conceivable consequence can be done about either, save to entertain oneself with the kaleidoscopic spectacle of their incredibly absurd exorbitances and divagations.