When Was The Last Time You Read

Fool!" Cried The Hunchback. "you Fell Victim To One Of The Classic Blunders. The Most Famous Is 'never Get Involved In A Land War In Asia,' But Only Slightly Less Well Known Is This: 'never Go In Against A Sicilian When Death Is On The Line.

Look. (grown-ups Skip This Paragraph) I'm Not About To Tell You This Book Has A Tragic Ending. I Already Said In The Very First Line How It Was My Favorite In All The World. But There's A Lot Of Bad Stuff Coming.

He Had Risked His Life And Now It Was Walking Away From Him, Hand-in-hand With A Ruffian Prince.

Flailing And Thrashing, Buttercup Wept And Tossed And Paced And Wept Some More, And There Have Been Three Great Cases Of Jealousy Since David Of Galilee Was First Afflicted With The Emotion When He Could No Longer Stand The Fact That His Neighbor Saul's Cactus Outshone His Own. (originally, Jealousy Pertained Solely To Plants, Other People's Cactus Or Ginkgoes, Or, Later, When There Was Grass, Grass, Which Is Why, Even To This Day, We Say That Someone Is Green With Jealousy.) Buttercup's Case Rated A Close Fourth On The All-time List. It Was A Very Long And Very Green Night.

You Have To Protect Your Writing Time. You Have To Protect It To The Death.