I have now been a week at salt water, & though I think I have got some good
by it yet I have some secret fears--that this business will be dangerous if not fatal.-- (Rabbie's letter to his father-in-law, James Armour, 10 July 1796)
"A newspaper clipping mentioned that the State Entomologist had retired to become Adviser on Shade Trees, and one wondered whether this was not some dainty oriental euphemism for death" (Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov)
And on the other side of these are moths and mothers.
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