Kurt’s Reviews > Gambit > Status Update

There's a fireplace in the front room, but it's never list because [Mr. Wolfe] hates open fires. He says they stultify mental processes. But it's lit now because he's using it. He's seated in front of it, tearing out sheets of a book and burning them. The book is the new edition, of webster's New International Dictionary. He considers it subversive because it threatens the integrity of the English language.