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LaShawn posted this, and I liked it so much I wanted to keep a copy of it, so I'm quoting...

Pat (Spencer Tracy) and Jamie (Katharine Hepburn) are on a sleeper train, and the following dialogue ensues: Jamie: Would you...

Theodore Sturgeon's 1951 story “Rule of Three” (spoilers!) features two tripartite energy beings who embed themselves in six humans, and...

Still enjoying Laurie Colwin's 1978 novel Happy All the Time. Here are a couple more bits worth snipping for my...

I've been doing some sorting and organizing and winnowing of books lately, and came across a book that I think...

“Quite, quite,” she thought with a little sigh. “It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved....

I'm reading Digger, and just reached the part (about halfway through; p. 451 of the Omnibus edition, p. 491 of the webcomic)...

Many years ago, Arthur E and I were driving somewhere, and we saw a spotlight sweeping back and forth across...

I've had several interesting conversations about gender roles in the past few days. Not gonna write a real entry about...

Last night, I watched the 2008 movie Changeling (set in 1928). It didn't do anything for me, and I ended...

Yesterday someone linked to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, and I realized that I had never read it...

I think I linked to Erin McKean's excellent 2006 post “You Don't Have to Be Pretty” at some point, but...