The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.
Neil GaimanIt seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a houseโand the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.
Neil GaimanWe...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.
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