A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.
Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive
Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses
I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.
