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If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. It's wonderful. (1989) [ ] • I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. • Opening line. • When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever. • My father liked Iowa.

He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines. • I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car. • I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope. • I watched a rerun on television of a 1960s comedy programme called 'Mr Ed', which was about a talking horse. Judging by the quality of the jokes, I would guess that Mr Ed wrote his own material. • Just down the road stood a little town, which I shall call Dullard lest the people recognize themselves and take me to court or come to my house and batter me with baseball bats.

• A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?) • I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise. • For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption. • about Newport, Rhode Island (RI) (1991) [ ] • Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain. • We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

• The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience. You’ve got three kinds of chromosomes: X, Y and fuck-head. - Katz • I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead. • We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under. Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that. • Why, it's a perfect little city. If you have never been to Durham, go there at once.

It's wonderful. • Bill Bryson was later awarded an honorary doctorate and appointed to the position of Chancellor of the University of Durham. Cosmos Witold Gombrowicz Pdf Free. • Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.

• I know this goes without saying, but really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers.

Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!'