And who is the character with the hair?
It helps to know this is said in the film by a very 1940s noir dame about another very 1940s noir dame.
I had invented another Egypt, an Egypt that stood beyond time, because although it gave every indication of having been lost there was scant evidence that it had ever existed; it was an Egypt "on the margin" or "on spec", an Egypt I "castled" with every other place I might have called home, an Egypt from the past that kept intruding on the present to remind me, among so many other things, that if I loved summoning up the past more than I loved the past I summoned up, and if it was not really Egypt but remembering Egypt that I loved, this was because my trouble was no longer with Egypt but with life itself.
Out of Egypt: A Memoir, André Aciman
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Ronnie the Bear quakes, but the Wretched Harmony casts a spell so badass that the lock falls apart and becomes a gas of rose petals that goes up their noses like a baby's challenge.
Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely
Ramsey has an annual holiday tradition with some friends of watching this bonkers fan dub of the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and returning to this text always uncovers some forgotten gem of madness like this sentence. "A baby's challenge"!
Articles from the time indicated that at football games, the old mascots were ridiculed and pelted with items such as "marshmallows" and "batteries" by students on a frequent basis.
Wikipedia entry for YoUDee, the mascot of the University of Delaware
Fun fact: the University of Delaware's official mascot is a "Blue Hen" but is officially described as "neither male nor female", which is weirdly forward-thinking for a place as mediocre and conservative as Delaware.
The sentences in “Attic” are like a series of chaotic high kicks, or the deliberately unpracticed routine of a middle-school dance team, and I mean that as a compliment.
Naomi Huffman on the writing of Katherine Dunn, interviewed for The New Yorker
I met Naomi at a party once when she still worked at FSG and she was so cool that I completely failed to follow up with her on a book project conversation we were having. I took this as a sign that I would never write another book again. This may have been an extreme reaction.
One time I made a house out of sandwiches.
An extremely chatty child who engaged us in conversation at the dog park
This statement was, you understand, made apropos of nothing previous to the conversation.
COMPUTATION is either performed by Numbers, as in Vulgar Arithmetick, or by Species, as usual among Algebraists.
Universal Arithmetick, Isaac Newton
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