The Word "souvenir" Has, Of Course, Slightly

I Sometimes Wonder If The Manufacturers Of Foolproof Items Keep A Fool Or Two On Their Payroll To Test Things.

Strictly Speaking, The Land Does Not Exist; It Is Merely Dehydrated Sea.

Ethnically, The Germans Are Teutonic... Being Made Up Of Vandals, Gepidae, And Goths, All Of Whom Emigrated - South From Sweden In About 500 Bc; Why They Emigrated Is Not Exactly Clear, But Many Scholars Believe It Was Because They Saw The Way Sweden Was Going, I.e. Neutral.

Can Anything Match That First Fine Discovery Of The Telephone And All It Stood For? That First Realization That, Contained Within Ten Simple Digits, Lay The Infinitely Possible? Out There ... Lay Six Billion Ears, All The People In The World Available For Contact And Mystery And Insult, Unable To Resist The Beckoning Of One Small And Villainous Forefinger.

English Bohemianism Is A Curiously Unluscious Fruit. ... Inside This Hothouse, Huge Lascivious Orchids Slide Sensuously Up The Sweating Windows, Passion-flowers Cross-pollinate In Wild Heliotrope Abandon, Lotuses Writhe With Poppies In The Sweet Warm Beds, Kumquats Ripen, Open And Plop Flatly To The Floor-and Outside, In A Neat, Trimly-hoed Kitchen-garden, English Bohemians Sit In Cold Orderly Rows, Like Carrots.