Spat Queen

I pass by the Stationary Department. I buy several fountain and stylographic pens it being my experience that, though a fountain pen in England behaves in an exemplary manner, the moment it is let loose in desert surroundings it percieves that it is at liberty to go on strike and behaves accordingly, either spouting ink indescriminately over me, my clothes, my notebook and anything else handy, or else coyly refusing to do anything but scratch invisibly across the surface of the paper. I also buy a modest two pencils. Pencils are, fortunately, not temperamental...
---Agatha Christie Mallowan



What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
----Tolstoy
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is anything other than goodness.
----The Lady Shrew


----All my deepest respect to the writers and their work.

I am adding the conclusion of my book the Dead Constitutions upon special request. Send me a request for my next chapter: "Goose Chase". It's a monumental read if you're following the book.