"I have not, as I said, that happy leisure . . . I have no such skill . . . I have no such authority . . . I must for that cause do my business myself, and was therefore enforced, as a bear doth her whelps, to bring forth this confused lump; I had not time to lick it into form as she doth her young ones, but even so to publish it as it was first written, quicquid in buccam venit [whatever came out], in an extemporanean style, as I do commonly all other exercises."
- Burtonis Blogistes
from Startles
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It must have been those dementia classes I took from my mother that made me
re-read *The Memory Police*, though there was little re- to it, as I can’t
r...
2 days ago
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