unearths some literary gems.
From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, by Jerome K. Jerome:What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.***
From Dewey Decimated, by Charles A. Goodrum:"My mother named me Betty and my father was afraid I'd disappear into a sea of Betty Joneses so he put the Crighton in the middle. I managed to slip out of the Betty about the ninth grade and never looked back."
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From one of Simon Brett's Charles Paris novels:
Impresario Marius Steen, the man behind such stage successes as One Thing After Another, Who's Afraid of the Big Bed Wolf? and, of course, his current smash-hit at the King's Theatre, Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other...
