A Lot Happens By Accident In Poetry.

Language Is Remarkable, Except Under The Extreme Constraints Of Mathematics And Logic, It Never Can Talk Only About What It's Supposed To Talk About But Is Always Spreading Around.

Short Stories Amount For The Most Part To Parlour Tricks, Party Favours With Built-in Snappers, Gadgets For Including Recognition And Reversals

The Nice Thing About The Bible Is It Doesn't Give You Too Many Facts. Two An A Half Lines And It Tells You The Whole Story And That Leaves You A Great Deal Of Freedom To Elaborate On How It Might Have Happened.

Shakespeare Tells The Same Stories Over And Over In So Many Guises That It Takes A Long Time Before You Notice.

I Like All My Children, Even The Squat And Ugly Ones.