“What did you follow him below that time for, Mitchell?” I asked presently, for want of something better to say. Mitchell looked at me out of the corners of his eyes. “I wanted to score a drink!” he said. “I thought he wanted one and wouldn′t like to be a Jimmy Woodser.”

A solid gold toilet? That's fuck you money.

Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, were part and parcel of the Neolithic phenomenon; that is, the so-called agricultural revolution. (Before Writing 41).

Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels.