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“A dose of chlorine won’t hurt them” Lady Satan opines, quite incorrectly, as she fills an entire room of baddies with the deadly stuff.”
Jon Morris, The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History

Edith Wharton
“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
Edith Wharton

Margaret Powell
“They knew that you breathed and you slept and you worked, but they didn’t know that you read. Such a thing was beyond comprehension. They thought that in your spare time you sat and gazed into space, or looked at Peg’s Paper or the Crimson Circle. You could almost see them reporting you to their friends. ‘Margaret’s a good cook, but unfortunately she reads. Books, you know.”
Margaret Powell, Below Stairs

Stephen Greenblatt
“Violators of the edict were threatened with eternal damnation and a fine of 10 ducats.”
Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt
“The monk in the grip of acedia would find it difficult or impossible to read. Looking away from his book, he might try to distract himself with gossip but would more likely glance in disgust at his surroundings and at his fellow monks. He would feel that things were better somewhere else, that he was wasting his life, that everything was stale and pointless, that he was suffocating.”
Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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