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“How obedient the actors are! That’s what strikes me, Edward.”

Leighton Johns, My Uncle Toby.

Debunked: a word used to cast a magic spell.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

Linda drifted into the study with a solemn expression on her face. “Let the theater begin!” thought old George.

Jane Chetwynde, The Have-Not Faradays.

“No numbers add up. And no serious questions get answered. It’s postmodernism, baby!”

Clinton Hobbes, Stalking for Beginners.

“Alexa, find classical paradoxes!”

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

What does symmetry suggest?

Olmstead Trent III, The History of Objects.

“The Sirens did not beckon the sailors, Laura. It was far worse than that!”

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.

Consciousness permits matter.

Chalmers Van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.

Martin Baldwin insisted on holding the book upside down as he was reading it. “It’s more challenging that way,” he sometimes whispered.

Rhonda Carstairs, A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.

“That’s a girl’s writing, Linda. No guy who ever put pen to paper would write the word vivid.”

Marston Moore, Sweet Meteor of Death.