Saturday’s Quotation

“There, of course, I stumbled against Lady Brandon. ‘You are not going to run away so soon, Mr. Hallward?’ she screamed out. You know her curiously shrill voice?”

“Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty.”

-The Picture of Dorian Gray-

Thursday’s Quotation

“You don’t have to agree with me on everything; you can be wrong if you want to.”

This Tuesday’s Quotation

“They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris,” chuckled Sir Thomas…

“Really! and where do bad Americans go to when they die?” inquired the Duchess.

“They go to America,” murmured Lord Henry.

-The Picture of Dorian Gray

Delay

Due to obnoxious difficulties involving the scanner, I won’t be posting anything for an unknown period of time.

Laughing Gas: strip 16

It seemed to me that he and I were in a room rather like the waiting-room, only larger, and as in the real waiting-room, there were two doors, one on each side.
The first was labelled: I. J. ZIZZBAUM
The other: B. K. BURWASH
And Cooley kid and I were jostling one another trying to get through the Zizzbaum door.

Laughing Gas: strip 15

And presently a white-robed attendant appeared and announced that B. K. Burwash was straining at the forceps, and the gang passed through into his room, interviewing to the last.

Laughing Gas: strip 14

“Matter of fact,” he said, summing it up, “you’d have a tough time finding somebody I’m not going to poke in the snoot, once I’m big enough. I’ve got all their names in a little notebook.”

Laughing Gas: strip 13

So here we are again at the point where, if you remember, I originally wanted to start the story, only my literary pal headed me off.
“Where, ” he asked, “are the rest of the boys?”

Laughing Gas: strip 12

Whether by pure spontaneous combustion, or because I had inadvertently taken aboard too large a segment of ice-cream, the old Havershot wisdom tooth had begun to assert its personality

Laughing Gas: strip 11

“Oh, very well,” she said. “I might have known it would be no use trying to drive sense into a fat head like yours …April June!”
“Why do you say ‘April June’ like that?”
“Because it’s the only way to say it.”
“Well, let me tell you I resent your saying ‘April June’ as if you were mentioning the name of some particularly unpleasant disease.”