“Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?” IfsStoriesLightFightingWinningLeftStrongDarkFictionMysteryDrinkBedClaimsTrainChairsCompanionSubstitutesSlipsRemorseHangoverOpiatesStrong Drink Author:Mary Cantwell
“Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs.” LeftCryBabyProudArroganceChairsCriedEchoesCarriages Author:Marlena De Blasi
“... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.” LongHandsYoungLeftFireDoorsHairFairsChairsLockedPaleYoung WomenSpookyLocked Doors Book:A Christmas Treasury Source: A Christmas Treasury
“When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.” MindWellsMayDoeTwoDifferentHomeBodyHandsLeftTermKnownTearsTypeJokesMachinesGhostChairsPairsCategoriesDogmaFloodAbsurdityConstructsWell KnownPropositionsMind And BodyGlovesLeft HandPurchasers Book:The Concept of Mind Source: The Concept of Mind