Coming in again to leave two of my Favorite Archie Bits from "The Rubber Band"...
Frustrated and going for a drive in the roadster to cheer up: I doubt if anything could ever get me so low that it wouldn't perk me up to get out and enjoy nature, anywhere between the two rivers from the Battery to 110th Street, but preferably below 59th.
<3 <3 <3 I love reading fiction with a good, solid setting, and protagonists who are really *rooted* in a particular place, like Archie is. The over-specific clarification of the exact location of "nature" is meant to be funny, of course, but it's also something very true and telling about Archie.
Also, why he hadn't assumed the Marquis of Clivers was the killer: Because like most other people, and maybe especially Americans, there was a sneaky feeling in me that men with noble titles didn't do things like that. Besides, this bird had just been to Washington and had lunch at the White House .... As a matter of fact, I suspect that noblemen and people who eat lunch at the White House commit more than their share of murders compared to their numerical strength in the total population.
<3 Sometimes Archie reminds me of a Mark Twain character, simultaneously sort of deeply cynical about human nature but very humanist and hopeful as well, very egalitarian... This totally reads to me like it could be a missing paragraph from "Connecticut Yankee."
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Coming in again to leave two of my Favorite Archie Bits from "The Rubber Band"...
Frustrated and going for a drive in the roadster to cheer up: I doubt if anything could ever get me so low that it wouldn't perk me up to get out and enjoy nature, anywhere between the two rivers from the Battery to 110th Street, but preferably below 59th.
<3 <3 <3 I love reading fiction with a good, solid setting, and protagonists who are really *rooted* in a particular place, like Archie is. The over-specific clarification of the exact location of "nature" is meant to be funny, of course, but it's also something very true and telling about Archie.
Also, why he hadn't assumed the Marquis of Clivers was the killer: Because like most other people, and maybe especially Americans, there was a sneaky feeling in me that men with noble titles didn't do things like that. Besides, this bird had just been to Washington and had lunch at the White House .... As a matter of fact, I suspect that noblemen and people who eat lunch at the White House commit more than their share of murders compared to their numerical strength in the total population.
<3 Sometimes Archie reminds me of a Mark Twain character, simultaneously sort of deeply cynical about human nature but very humanist and hopeful as well, very egalitarian... This totally reads to me like it could be a missing paragraph from "Connecticut Yankee."