The Fun One Can Have Writing Books

Acceptable Rules Of Conduct Were Suspended When It Came To The Spoon Shortage. The Deficit Had Gotten So Bad That Prices Were All But Unaffordable, And Dynastic Spoon Succession Had Become A Matter Of Considerable Interest. Spoons Were Even Postcode Engraved And Carried On One's Person To Eliminate Theft, And Good Table Manners, One Of The Eight Pillars Upon Which The Collective Was Built, Had Been Relaxed To Allow Tea To Be Stirred - Shockingly - With The Handle Of A Fork.

There Is Much Unexplained In The World. It Behooves Us To Be Wary At All Times. Just When You Think You've Got The Hang Of It, Along Comes String Theory, Collateralized Debt Obligations Or Björk's New Album, And Bam! You're As Confused As You Were When You First Started.

Books" - Snell Smiled - "are A Kind Of Magic.

Sometimes, A Word Succeeds Beyond The Wildest Dreams Of Its Creators, Like A Virus Sent Into The World To Infect Common Speech.

Everything Comes To An End. A Good Bottle Of Wine, A Summer’s Day, A Long-running Sitcom, One’s Life, And Eventually Our Species. The Question For Many Of Us Is Not That Everything Will Come To An End But When. And Can We Do Anything Vaguely Useful Until It Does?