Extreme Happiness Invites Religion Almost

I Write This Sitting In The Kitchen Sink.

But Some Characters In Books Are Really Real--jane Austen's Are; And I Know Those Five Bennets At The Opening Of Pride And Prejudice, Simply Waiting To Raven The Young Men At Netherfield Park, Are Not Giving One Thought To The Real Facts Of Marriage.

They Call Them The Haunted Shores, These Stretches Of Devonshire And Cornwall And Ireland Which Rear Up Against The Westward Ocean. Mists Gather Here, And Sea Fog, And Eerie Stories. That's Not Because There Are More Ghosts Here Than In Other Places, Mind You. It's Just That People Who Live Hereabouts Are Strangely Aware Of Them.

Topaz Was Wonderfully Patient - But Sometimes I Wonder If It Is Not Only Patience, But Also A Faint Resemblance To Cows.

Like Many Other Much-loved Humans, They Believed That They Owned Their Dogs, Instead Of Realizing That Their Dogs Owned Them.