unearths some literary gems.
From Sleep of the Unjust, by Elizabeth Ferrars:
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"It might be best to explore every avenue."
"Avenues seem to have been invented just to be explored, don't they?" Felix said. "Yet mostly they're such uninteresting places. Acacia Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, that sort of thing. But of course there's a good supply of them in New York which may be more interesting."
Quite properly, no one took any notice of him.
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[Nonsense Meets Rhetorical Questions dept.]
"Why has everyone suddenly taken to talking nonsense?"
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"Felix, I wish you'd stick to detecting instead of to having strange experiences, it suits you better."
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"Do you think that mere delusions steal necklaces?" [Cf. Wodehouse's Do Butlers Burgle Banks?]
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