unearths some literary gems.
From The Case of the Fugitive Nurse, by Erle Stanley Gardner:
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[This isn't the first time PM has suggested starting from the middle, but on this occasion he justifies it!]
“You—I—I hardly know how to begin,” she said, crossing her knees, smoothing the pearl-gray skirt down over her legs, her hazel eyes fastened on the toe of her left shoe.
“Begin at the middle,” Mason said.
She glanced up at him quickly. “I thought you’d say begin at the beginning. That’s what people usually say in response to a statement of that sort.”
“Well, then, let’s be unusual,” Mason said. “Sometimes it’s better to begin in the middle and then you’re not so far from either the beginning or the ending.”
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"It keeps developing into such a series of bizarre situations that the whole thing seems like a cross section of a crazy quilt." [I guess a cross section of a crazy quilt is presumed to look even crazier?]
