Over the last few weeks, I finally got around to reading BLINDNESS by José Saramago and 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel García Márquez. After the weightiness of those novels, I was ready for some more lighthearted bedtime reading, so I grabbed a book of great American short stories off the shelf. The collection included Poe's "The Purloined Letter" which contains the fantastic insult, below.
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had the fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities."
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