Tyler, I'm inventing a pissless wine and a pissless beer. Then I shall turn my attention to the bean. Lincoln Byrd's guaranteed windless baked beans.

When he spoke, his voice was its usual slurred nonsensical sound. What Stony's mother—not my mother, not anymore, he reminded himself—had called “Village Idiotese.”

About 1150 some Palestinian anchorites adopted the eremitical rule of St. Basil, and spread throughout Palestine; when the Moslems captured the Holy Land these Carmelites migrated to Cyprus, Sicily, France, and England.

Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian — not splenitive or rash […]