"I think, myself, that the book is one of the best of my 'foreign travel' ones, and if detective stories are 'escape literature' (and why shouldn't they be!) the reader can escape to sunny skies and blue water as well as to crime in the confines or an armchair."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to mantain the temperature required for sustaining life." Wislawa Szymborska
Word of the day:
Quickhatch - a wolverine. Carnivorous North American mammal.
* Thereafter the rich American sent swiftly by cable for a beast wich he called a quickhatch, and whose name the trappers of the Rocky Mountains use when they want to call anyone by a worse name then devil.
F. St. Mars, On Nature's trail, 1912
* Sabine, who replied in his usual sententious manner - "A Scotchman would call it a 'quickhatch', an Indian an 'okelcoo hawgew', and a Canadian a 'carcajou'". "And what do you call it?" "A wolverene, ma'am", returned Sabine...
Jules Verne, translated by N. D'Anvers, The Fur Country, 1873
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