There's a cheap and cheerful coffee shop on the next street which sells quite a good selection of sandwiches.

My dear Tom, you are going to undertake an Impossibility. If you knew my Father, you would never think of obtaining his Consent.

And yet — you are not to confuse the thistle with the cedar that is in Lebanon ; nor to forget — if the spinous nature of it become too cruel to provoke and offend — the parable of Joash to Amaziah, and its fulfilment : There passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it’s like it’s a game played on the skin of a void and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.