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This is just too funny:

OPERATOR: 911. What is your urgence?
CALLER: Operator, I need an ambulance. I think I just cut my finger off in the blender …
OPERATOR: (The sound of a cigarette being lit, then an exhale.)

We should do this for all of our favorite philosophers.  I call Jean Jacques Rousseau!

Under the subject of “a curious imagination, but expansive!!” I received the following fanmail for Christopher Paolini, the child author of fantasy novels Eragon and Eldest.

Dear Mr. Paolini,

(if that’s ok, because to some it bothers them so i don’t know). As your usual fan mail starts: Your and amazing writer your imagination is expansive (farther than Russia to Puerto Rico) it’s extremely impressive how ever you write it down. Anyway to the point, I haven’t visited the states but in a few months I’m moving to AZ from P. R. I’m not trying seduce or anything but how do you learn more about the ancient creatures because you describe them as if you were literally on the landscapes of Oromis and Gleadr’s home and the training’s with Eragon and Saphira but yet you can’t compare it to anything so I don’t know how it looks like. To be honest reading your books are the only antidote to the situations that I’m in my life now. To seduce, I meant was to ask you where you get your inspiration from I know what you’ve said was your home in Montana but that’s your own imagination, places you’ve seen, etc… although i would desperately would like to know I won’t ask, plus that really personal so I will not ask. I would like to ask you that when you read this mail I’ve sent you please don’t post on any web or anything dealing within the computer (or outside)

sincerely, Grace from P. R

p.s.if ur a person who writes tragically i would encounter you to know that im of an age u’ll never guess

This is the cover to the first quarto editor (1600) of William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Fabulous!  (Thanks Wikipedia)