H.M. Holten asked Raymond St. Elmo:

If you had to recommend one of your books -- preferably one that doesn't embarrass you -- which one would it be?

Raymond St. Elmo What a nice question! I shall forego habit and give serious answer*
None of my books really embarrass me. I admire my own writing-voice as a parakeet adores his mirror.

But Origins is long and weird, full of jokes about programming, languages and literary jokes. Not for any but select customers such as yourself, H.M.

If I wanted to show off my heavenly writing style, I'd go with Stations of the Angels. It's St. Elmo distilled to fine essence. In fact I carry the tincture in a little glass bottle. Smells like vanilla but that's only 'cause it used to hold vanilla.
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*also its after lunch and I can't think of anything funny except knock-knock jokes. Knock-knock, who's there; misapplied object form; Misapplied Object Form whom?
This seems hilarious to me.

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