Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.

And it was Swan — not the Chinese slave, not the icehearted mademoiselle, not the thieving ugly whore at the fandango house — that the forty-niner wove into his mythology.

the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted hyoid?

They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals. They had the definite impression that that was what zebra crossings were meant for. Free funerals.