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How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is one peopled by demons, phantoms, vampires, ghouls, boggarts, and nixies. Names of things of which I knew nothing are now so familiar that the creatures themselves appear to have real existence. The Arabian Nights are not more fantastic than our gospels; and Lempriere would have found ours a more marvelous world to catalog than the classical mythical to which he devoted his learning. Ours is a world of luprachaun and clurichaune, deev and cloolie, and through the maze of mystery I have to thread my painful way, now learning how to distinguish oufe from pooka, and nis from pixy; study long screeds upon the doings of effreets and dwergers, or decipher the dwaul of delirious monks who have made homunculi from refuse. Waking or sleeping, the image of some uncouth form is always present to me. What would I not give for a volume by the once despised 'A. L. O. E' or prosy Emma Worboise? Talk of the troubles of Winifred Bertram or Jane Eyre, what are they to mine? Talented authoresses do not seem to know that however terrible it may be to have as a neighbour a mad woman in a tower, it is much worse to have to live in a kitchen with a crocodile. This elementary fact has escaped the notice of writers of fiction; the re-statement of it has induced me to reconsider my decision as to the most longed-for book; my choice now is the Swiss Family Robinson. In it I have no doubt I should find how to make even the crocodile useful, or how to kill it, which would be still better. ("Mysterious Maisie")


Wirt Gerrare


#creature #crocodile #emma-jane-worboise #fae #faerie

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.


Paul Kantner


#compared #concerts #like #meetings #now

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.


Donna Karan


#about #building #development #fashion #form

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.


Janis Karpinski


#course #declared #end #fewer #got

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.


Vincent Kartheiser


#anywhere #away #because #been #buy

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.


Leon Kass


#cloning #danger #example #immediate #into

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.


Leon Kass


#cloning #interested #must #preventing #process

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.


Leon Kass


#caution #doing #engineering #enough #kinds

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.


Leon Kass


#about #altogether #children #controversy #important

This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!


Terry Kath


#band #believe #big #big thing #change






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