I've Seen Golems. They Don't Behave Like

When Have You Looked?" Said Sophie. "oh, How Your Rears Flap And Your Long Nose Twitches", Howl Croaked.

Things We Are Accustomed To Regard As Myth Or Fairy Story Are Very Much Present In People's Lives. Nice People Behave Like Wicked Stepmothers. Every Day.

Theseus Made Unscrupulous Use Of Ariadne (whom He Left On An Island Where Bacchus Later Found Her-i Always Think That Really Meant She Took To Drink, Poor Girl).

Christopher Discovered That You Dealt With Obnoxious Masters And Most Older Boys The Way You Dealt With Governesses: You Quite Politely Told Them The Truth In The Way They Wanted To Hear It, So That They Thought They Had Won And Left You In Peace.

Doras Ii Was A Somewhat Absentminded King, It Is Said, When Death Came To Summon Him, Doras Granted Death The Usual Formal Audience And Then Dismissed Him From His Presence. Death Was Too Embarrassed To Return Until Many Years Later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances