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• When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
  Hilaire Joseph Belloc (1870-1953)...
• I thought you were dead...
• And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?
• If I were dead, I wouldn't be alive!
• I only wish that I were what I was when I wished that I would be what I am now.
• Okay, I think that I can now return to my country and my village.
  By the way, how many forbidden books do you have?" "Oh,", one of them said to me, " their number grows up geometrically....
• Pedro Guerrero was playing third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984 when he made the comment that earns him a place in my Hall of Fame.
  Second baseman Steve Sax was having trouble making his throws....
• Once I was at a gig with Big Jack Reynolds a old bluesman I know in Toledo after he played a couple of young wanna-bees were gathered around his amp and guitar checkin' out the hardware when Big Jack happened by and said in passing
  It ain't the guitar boys .......
• And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?
  -- Looney Tunes, The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950, Chuck Jones)...