The Third Policeman
'See that you regularize your irregularity instantaneously,' he called as his good-bye, 'and set right your irrectitude and put the murderer in the cage before he rips the bag out of the whole countryside.' After that he was gone. Sounds came to us of sparse scraping...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
I am not a proponent of the curtains being open. Some people know. Of course they know. People know. Everyone knows. Everyone is talking. Waiting. I have plans for them, the nosy, the inquisitive, the pitying, have developed elaborate fantasies for those who would see...
The Third Policeman
'The first beginnings of wisdom,' he said, 'is to ask questions but never to answer any. You get wisdom from asking and I from not answering. Would you believe that there is a great increase in crime in this locality? Last year we had sixty-nine cases of no lights,...
The Secret People
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget, For we are the people of England, that never has spoken yet. There is many a fat farmer that drinks less cheerfully, There is many a free French peasant who is richer and sadder than we. There are no folk in the...
Codex Seraphinianus
If you haven't heard of the Codex Seraphinianus, then steady yourself. It appears to be one of the oddest things to have been published! This is called the Rocket Circumnambulation and is found among a series of other foot placement diagrams for otherwise innocuous...