The more a place sleeps the rougher the spirit Put your ear down to the ground and you can almost hear it —Eilen Jewell A mourning dove’s wing feather caught in a spiderweb spinning in the wind Whatever you say, say nothing. —Seamus Heaney The World’s Great Thinkers (Random House, 1947, 4 volumes). Thinking became remarkable at some point before 1947. I don’t know karate but I know ka-razy —James Brown Early in the twentieth century, the supposedly flash-frozen carcass of a Beresovka mammoth was said to have been found sitting upright in Siberia with buttercups in its teeth. According to J. Holland, writing in 1976, “the flesh was still edible, but reportedly not tasty.” Addition to the many “two kinds of people” lists: those who can and those who cannot persuade themselves that, just this once, this particular barrel has a false bottom.
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You just made my brain so happy!
The matchbook cover reminds me of ads years ago in the back pages of magazines touting ways to make money in your spare time at home. For example, envelope stuffing.