[..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.

This home familiarity […] opens the sluices of sensibility. The stream flowing through a floodgate.

This novel did no good, for the NewgateCalendar for the following quarter presented many extra cases of abduction, seduction, and reduction, five of forgery, and eight of Unclecide.

Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out, had a heart of glass