Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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HUNTLEY wanted to find the octopus. He found a braingray sac pressed into a corner of stone and glass, with a sad, small eye looking directly at him. The octopus looked like a corpulent ghost: but I suppose that a motionless, eight-handed beast isn't necessarily sad or pensive or dolorously malicious, and that for all I know-and I would much rather think so-he was bouyant with comatose hilarity, passing the time in genial mockery of this poor human being, hopelessly circumscribed with only a quarter of his arms. These thoughts prepared me for the seahorses. They...
Then Young, pewter mug in hand, proposed a toast to "a fine old building" and to the Mass Hall ghost, an omnipresent resident of the dorm. The ghost was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and since no one knows which side he was on. Mike Meddler '73, an Englishman, honored the ghost with a toast to "freedom" and Sam Burr '73, a Yankee, gave a toast to "independence...
Many are English novels; none deal with the presidency. The cabinets in the kitchen are emblazoned with the Presidential Seal. The only ghost of a library is a drawing room containing about 1,000 volumes, which relate vaguely to the presidency-and which can be found at most any good bookstore...
...believer in the so-called supernatural." he said between pieces of toast. "I say so-called because it is my conviction that telepathy and clairvoyance and premonitions and ail these things are really a part of naturel. You cannot photograph a ghost just as you cannot photograph talent or love. But this is not a proof that they don't exist...
...prime, Gardner could finish a novel in six weeks. He was so prolific that a newspaper reviewer once intimated that the author had a ghost writer or two stashed away at the ranch. Gardner's publisher immediately offered $100,000 to anyone who could substantiate the story. "It would be worth $100,000," he said, "just to find someone who can write like Gardner...