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.

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.