You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.