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"He knew that American history was filled with entrepreneurs like P. T. Barnum, Walt Disney, and Charles Ponzi—"

"Suddenly someone shouted, 'camera, camera.' It was someone filming from a window. As soon as the police heard this they stopped hitting us."

"Perhaps as an homage to Langley’s historical analytical competence, these puzzles make little sense, and whether you solve them or not creates almost no appreciable difference in your fate."

"Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all."

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One must, one supposes, take solace in the fact that all Cardinal Altamiranoes must one day become Harry Perkinses.

"The paradise of the poor is seldom pleasing to those who rule over them."

(The Muckenhoupt Hotel.) http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/2003/07/23/whole_dern_thing

(The Fool, reversed.)

Hey! You! Read my story! Tell your friends! http://thecityofroses.com/trivia

"Very enjoyable bit of urban fantasy kit—" http://thecityofroses.com/contents

How most of the books in Prospero's Books aren't books, per se.

Idly wondering what occult secret in the urban planning codes results in so many shopping center spaces being precisely 157,185 square feet.

(Eight of Coins.)