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• When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
  -- Hilaire Belloc...
• 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.
• The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.
  One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?...
• 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 .......