Word of the Day
Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. -- Joanne Harris, Chocolat
Throughout his very considerable body of work, there is an obsession with time, with dates, with temporal coincidences, with the fatidic power of numbers over our birth and death. -- James Kirkup, "Obituary: Ernst Junger", Independent, February 18, 1998
