It is best to come clean, Mr Kendall said. But an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure.

In those days a still-birth brought as high as ten dollars and after riding the shoot-the-chutes we always left a little stale beer for the morning because the finest thing in the world for Katzenjammer is a glass of stale beer.

The Sun - our local star - is one of an estimated 200 billion making up our 'star-city', the Galaxy.

[…] Melville critically assails the once privileged concept of the subject: the Confidence Man's repetition of theatrical display empowers his predatory hegemonics.