Sunday, October 5, 2008

Usual Bits

"Suppose you tell me what you're about?" said the little hairy man as they sat on the ground and drank their tea. Tristran thought for some moments, and then he said, "I come from the village of Wall, where lives a young lady named Victoria Forestor, who is without peer among women, and it is to her, and to her alone, that I have given my heart. Her face is--" "Usual complement of bits?" asked the little creature. "Eyes? Nose? Teeth? All the usual?" (From the incomparable Stardust by Neil Gaimon)

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