Clerihew for a Readable Churchman

C. S. LEWIS

Question: Name a Christian militant
Disinclined to pompous cant?
Answer: As you probably knew, is,
Only ol' Clive Staples Lewis.

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From Less, by Andrew Sean Greer

LOOK

"Look, you: there are enough stars for everyone tonight, and among them shine the satellites, those counterfeit coins."

From Less Moroccan 

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From An Untouched House, by Willem Frederik Hermans, translated by David Colmer

NO MORE

"I picked up the bayonet and her handbag, which I clicked shut. There were no more signs of what had happened in the marble bathroom."

From page 58

A Very Short Christmas in Paducah

Who can forget Christmas, 1927? That was the year Bettelhiem's Acrobatic Babies -- probably the most notorious little people act in American vaudeville -- shot up the boarding house in Paducah. "I never had trouble from Show People," said the landlady, Mrs. Emma Thrush, "exception being Ernie Bettelhiem and his damned tumblers." She went on to tell the local paper, "He wasn't good to 'em, that's true, so when they got into my peach brandy, why, next thing you know, the boy's got my late husband's deer riffle, and all Hell broke loose."  The act broke up shortly thereafter.

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