Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.