He was an atheist. But he also maintained that the world was created by a monster named Leviathan that humans could and should overthrow if it ever becomes necessary.
Some creepy, dangerous frogs have taken over the southern woods.
Original Male Dog (OMD): Fic will sometimes feature an OMD (almost never an original female dog).
Smiley compared the squirrel in the road to peers who had gone “too far in their quest to reach ‘The Further.’”
Only practitioners certified by RISI can use the title “Rolfer,” or practice “Rolfing,” due to service mark ownership.
Surplus is an American, as we are apparently meant to recognize from his full name — Sir Blackthorpe Ravenscairn de Plus Precieux. Technically, he is also a dog, his canine genome tweaked into human form.
Few best-sellers can have been so reviled and excoriated over the years as Dean Farrar’s Eric, or Little by Little. It has consistently earned such critical judgments as “mawkishly false” (Vivian Ogilve), “a preposterous book” (John Rowe Townshend), “the sort of story Dr Arnold would have written if he’d taken to drink” (Hugh Kingsmill), “terrible warnings, soaked in nauseously cloying piety” (Roger Lancelyn Green), “the only book I ever wanted to lose” (Eric Ambler), “the nightmare emanation of some morbid, introverted brain” (Edward C. Mack), “one of the most idiotic books of the nineteenth-century” (Benny Green). The undoubted immortality of Eric is, then, as one historian has put it, “an immortality of derision.”
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Harington is not in any sense an “Arkansan,” and can’t stand to hear that word, although he’s a native of Little Rock and has lived in the state for most of his life. Yet he always has seen himself, and with deep passion, as a genuine “Arkansawyer.”
Matt Wilson originally proposed that the band be named Kirk Shakespeare, after two of his heroes: James T. Kirk and William Shakespeare.
College students were asked to rate the humor of cartoons from Gary Larson’s The Far Side while holding a pencil in their mouth.