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unearths some literary gems.
From The Old Contemptibles, by Martha Grimes:
***Here he'd been drawing a cow when he should have been thinking up a story.***[You recently discovered that, after all, there *is* such a person as Nobody. Well, now here's Everyone.]"Hell's bells, it's six p.m., where is everyone?""Right here, old sweat," said Marshall Trueblood, Long Piddleton's Everyone.***It was very difficult to describe Castle Howe without a fulsome use of italics.***""Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.'"[....]"I wish you'd stop saying that."[....]"I've only said it twice...in ten years."[....]"Do you have to say it?""Yes."[....]"Why?""It's the only Latin I know."***
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