He did say more after this:

It is dreadfully selfish of me to tell you about these horreurs at this time. But it’s a homeopathic remedy. One calamity is a distraction from the other. And, au bout du compte, what else can I do? In the whole of London there’s not a single person to whom I can so much as speak my mind, and in my own home I play the silent stoic to counterbalance the outbursts from the other side. It’s becoming virtually impossible to work under such circumstances. Instead of Mary, ought it not to have been my mother, who is in any case a prey to physical ailments and has had her fair share of life … ? You can see what strange notions come into the heads of ‘civilised men’ under the pressure of certain circumstances.

Salut.

Your K. M.

What arrangements will you now make about your establishment? It’s terribly hard for you, since with Mary you had a home to which you were at liberty to retreat from the human imbroglio, whenever you chose.

We have to look forward, not back

So you’re going to change things going forward, right?

I always like seeing then and then someone I’m with will say something like “It’s just a vulture.” I guess only raptors are impressive to them. Harumph!

Bearded vulture

I just went a-googling for that A’s pitcher from Stockton, Dallas Braden, who yelled at Alex Rodriguez and told him to “get off my mound” and later said “That’s not how we do things in the 209.” It turns out that (1) I’m old, as this was sixteen years ago, and (2) Braden later publicly turned on Stockton after an attempted carjacking, and he brought a baseball bat to a local anti-violence gathering.

Gotta let sleeping pigs lie.

Or do this. This works, too.

But for vodka

Finally! Full circle for me, since my comfort food is polyester.

you take marketing 101 where you learn how the US works

PIzza cutter

Forgetting the asterisk is the real latest fad.

Better go back to Flag School

For someone as vexed and as ill as she is she could really get a lot out of it.

When the bread hits your eye as the sparks start to fly

That’s badtoasting

“The hand of Providence crept across the sky, giving Slothrop the finger.” - Thomas Pynchon

/SHINbadposting was still too liberal, but fortunately we have /moretankiebadposting

There’s a Greek word I’m forgetting for the rhetorical strategy of making a word conspicuous by its absence in a composition. Like how they never use the word “mafia” in the first Godfather movie, or how you never see The Dude bowl in The Big Lebowski.

Hastert and Bakker are the big AmeriKKKan names but let’s not forget the crabs for Jeffrey Archer , the Tory Lord who moonlighted as a shitty novelist, a serial embezzler, and a convicted perjurer.

That’s a wrap on everyone from Frank Zappa’s “Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk.”

Mistranslated Myths Of Nomadic Desert Shepherd Tribe Taken At Face Value