Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
~Lords and Ladies
And when the lint of man’s hate meets the strewn crumbs of his fear,
and when it rises upon man in retribution for his shortsightedness,
they who see the future will send one of their own
to save man from his folly and beat the future into his thick, collective skull.
–The Lady in the Closet
While recent archaeological breakthroughs have definitively proven that the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids without any extraterrestrial aid, they have also uncovered shocking evidence that will shake the very foundations of everything we have ever believed about the origins of the bowler hat.
My piece of Mom’s Christmas present this year; I’m rather proud of it.
Josiah’s youth people are trying to start a Amtgardesque combat group and they are attempting to decided what to call themselves. They want a name that is crisp and easy to remember, that will strike trepidation into the hearts of their opponents, that invokes a nice sigil, and that makes an obscure biblical reference. P. G. Wodehouse and I came up with this one.
Generally considered a sort of mild, public menace by the various underworlds of London, the so called Lady of the Lamps made it her mission in life to study the secret lives of those people, who for one reason or another, preferred to keep their lives secret.
