� 2005 Hermester Barrington
Please read a sample from the only one of my works that has been graced with an ISBN, Death Trap at La Puente!
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1. The specimens on which Dr. Leidy based his monograph on the American species are housed in the jackalope exhibit at The Museum of Jurassic Technology.
2. I have received much praise for the phrase "vast shaggy continent," but it is not, of course, my own invention; rather, I borrowed it from Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier in American History. 3. This idea--indeed, much of this site--is derived from the writings of Jim Brandon, as other pages here will make clear. 4. In the rough draft of Walden, Thoreau wrote: "We ride upon the railroad, but it rides over the empty warrens of jackalopes, driven mad by the incessant shriek of the engine as it rolls heedlessly toward the west." This was later changed to his much more apt sleeper metaphor. 5. This may not appear as exact as Sappho's lines, but I had in mind the 'longshore' or 'dory' fisherman, who returns at nightfall. 6. You are what you eat, I suppose. 7. Perhaps Helen Mirren, Salma Hayek, and Merle Oberon will invite my wife Fayaway and me to a bacchanal. 8. The preceding lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton's): it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be counted. |