The majority of the twenty-six stunts described in this volume belong to a species of so-called hokum acts derived from the professional stage and handed down through several generations of actors.

His unhappiness was not due solely to the ravages of adolescence, the eccentricities of his family, exclusion from his peers' reindeer games, or even by living in the embodiment of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. It was all of those things and none of them.

Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.

Heaven was full of silent stars, and there was a moonglade on the water that stretched almost from him to Rose.