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Excerpts from a few of my favorite books.
Phantom Tollbooth's "Official Which"
Excerpt from Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, a play on words, numbers, and everything in between.
Julio Cortazar: Cronpios And Famas
I can't begin to describe how charmed I am by the tiny sketches of Julio Cortazar's Cronopios and Famas – specifically that third section, devoted to Cronopios, Famas, and Esperanzas. Here's an excerpt.
Roger Zelazny: The Agnostic's Prayer
An excerpt from Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness , it's also called "the Possibly Proper Death Litany"
Little Prince Fox Taming Story
Chapter 21 of the Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Dosadi Bureau Of Sabotage
An excerpt from Frank Herbert's The Dosadi Experiment , one of my favorite Science Fiction reads.
