Reading: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

27 February 2002: Silence

Best lines in the Big Silence:

Context: I had just woken up Blake, removing the towels that cover his cage, exclaiming "There you are! Just where you were yesterday!" and smooching his fluffy breast, when houseguest JGW stumbled through the room. He said, "I was just about to ask you for one of those."

I ask, "One of what? A kiss on your little tummy?" (explosive laughter from EJB, just behind him)

He said, "No, a towel."

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Context: RDC and I are at a homeshow, which I foolishly expected to be how-tos of garden design and paint palettes and thus worth the ten bucks I paid for admission to a continuing round of advertising. We pass a booth selling all manner of things imprinted with the Usan flag contrary to U.S. flag guidelines (Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8, paragraphs g and i). There are signs of the outer-than-out "Baby on Board" type including one that says "No Tresspassing--German Shepherd on Board" [sic]
"Look," I pointed out to RDC. "No spelling on board."