BiblioGRIND: Adventures in Writing & Publishing

“Tender” manners

“There’s too much good manner,” he said on the way back to Gstaad in the smooth sleigh. “Well, I think that’s nice,” said Baby. “No, it isn’t,” he insisted to the anonymous bundle of fur. “G

Where is the springtime weather?

Winter hung around until summer, evidently. There hasn’t been a spring – temp-wise — while summer in May lets me leave the house before 7am with only a sport jacket. The advantage of this is just that we get to be outside, finally. Playtime

In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches

“Turns of speech,” said he, “conceal mediocre affections: as if the fullness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his concept