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Society Of Dead Authors

Society Of Dead Authors

Society Of Dead Authors “The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”–Charles Caleb Colton

Rigor Mortis Has Set In

Rigor Mortis Has Set In

Rigor Mortis Has Set In “I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the book is tedious, it smells of the tomb, it has a rigor mortis about it; a serious fault, and yet a relatively small one, for the great defect of this book is you, reader. You want to live fast, to…

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