Knowing her supremely perfect being was completely mine […] I could conceive of no obstacle to my satisfaction, well, “the best laid plans of mice & men go astray” and my nemesis was her sister, the bitch.

Most fairgoers interviewed said that the annual fair was their sole exposure to professional live entertainment — and, in the case of Mr. Hilbig, to anything Teutonic.

Gardner's studies revealed that a horse could learn to choose a feedbox covered with black cloth and containing food instead of two empty feedboxes.

discarded into a Forraign Service, for a pretty shadow of Exilement