Experiences entered by angusif

There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die.

"At the time not a soul in sleeping Halcomb heard them--four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. But afterward the townspeople, theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors, found fantasy recreating them over and again--those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers."

a constant stream of world and character riddles: an island with conflicting histories; a cold-blooded schoolmistress warmed by a passionate heart; a cautious captain who's up for anything (Fletcher 93)

On the Origin of Species presents a constant stream of world and character riddles: an island with conflicting histories; a cold-blooded schoolmistress warmed by a passionate heart; a cautious captain who's up for anything (Fletcher 93). "How strange is it that a bird, under the form of woodpecker, should have been created to prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese, which never or rarely swim, should have been created with webbed feet." "When on board H.M.S. "Beagle," as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts [that] seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species--that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die--though I'd had reason enough for the last few months--but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this."

"I was just fitting my key into the door when I noticed a man at my elbow. "Pardon," he said, "I'm a bit rattled tonight. You see, I happen at this moment to be dead."

"I am going to tell the strangest story that I remember. It may seem a queer thing to say, especially considering that there's no woman in it--except Foulata. Stop, though! there is Gagaoola, if she was a woman, and not a fiend. But she was a hundred at least, and therefore not marriageable, so I don't count her."

"But of all the British kings, I've heard tell that Arthur was the most noble. And so I will show you something that's astonished the eyes of many, an outrageous adventure of knightly wonder, and if you will listen to my song for oh just a little, I will tell it as I heard it in town."

"Listen to my words, you who want to know; by my mouth you will learn the history of Mali. By my mouth you will get to know the story"