Dubious NovelA reasonable period of time ago, when innumerable Scottish nomads crept across the verdant hills of their misty continent, a curious saying was uttered.Dubious Novel
Of course, any Scotsman with some semblance of tribal pride conversed in his cultural tongue, grinding out words in the jagged highlander fashion. Everyone spoke this way, as the climate and times demanded it. The weighty fog soaking their sandal-clad toes mandated a roughness, some tacit understanding that Scots would be Scots and they had better all act like them.
This saying was in fact spoken by a Scotsman of the Ross Clan, my ancestor. I did not know this man,
Unfinished Sci-Fi-Drama-EpicDraft One, Chapter 0Unfinished Sci-Fi-Drama-Epic
Captain Ike Helmholtz, owing less to his own intentions than to those of cruel fate, was sprawled out half-dead and steadily dying in a brazen field littered with golden stalks of wheat. The wound on his left side, a gaping, bloody mess of formerly arranged tissue and bone, gave Ike little reason for hope. Several seconds would go by in agonized silence, subsequently punctured by deep groaning from the Captain upon review of his situation. The situation, as it were, was unfortunately simple enough for even a dazed, half-dead man to lament: there was no way out.
Some time later, Capt
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That which eludes me is my worst enemy, or so I am told. Acting on this revelation, I conclude that I am surrounded by my worst enemies at every given venue of my existence, a prospect which both bothers and amuses my greatly. I am beset from countless angles by inscrutable aggressors, agents of the unknown who seek to do me much harm.
I'm almost honored, but then again, they do seek my demise. Still, that much effort of my behalf is somewhat flattering.
I once asked my friend Jeremiah what he thought of such undetectable forces: &nbs
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I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq
-Stephen Colbert-
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