His wordes are these: If the soules of the dead were present in the matters or businesses of the liuing, or shuld talke with vs, when we se them in our slepe (that if I should holde my peace of the other) my godly mother wold neuer a night forsake me, which folowed me both by sen & by land, that she myght lyue in my companie. For, God forfend, that she should in the blessedfull lyfe be made more cruell: in so muche that when any thyng troubleth my heart, she wold comfort me hir son beyng in heauinesse, whome she loued entierly, whom she would neuer see to be striken in sadnesse.[…]What miracles soeuer (sayeth this holy father) bee so diuinely wrought & done, eyther by angels or by som other mean that they do cōmend the religion & worshipping of the only god, in whom only the blessedful lyfe is: we must beleue that they are truly done of them or by them whiche do loue vs according to the truth & godlinesse, God him selfe working in them.

Saracenic architecture, Saracenic music

These borderlines are outnumbered more than five to one by the blottos, drivers with BACs [blood alcohol concentrations] of 0.20 and higher. Put this 0.08 idea to the commonsense test: We're going to improve highway safety with a program aimed at a few borderlines, while five times as many blottos continue their boozy ways? It'll never work.

In those days, you either went for the bottle under the bed - the equivalent of today's 24-hour open Kafundas - or you went to a night club.