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Author of More Bread or I'll Appear...
...Ireland...and there were people that lived opposite that had a mad daughter, and they always kept her locked upstairs to they only ever saw this face in the window. Rumor had it if you went to the family and were in their living room, that she would appear at the top of the stairs and shout "More bread or I'll appear," and they'd run up and feed her rather than have her come down and embarrass them. So this is a story we were always told and we loved it as kids. When my parents had guests...
...heard other people from other parts of Ireland tell it and I realized that it was a sort of a folk myth about madness and the attitudes to madness and since More Bread Or I'll Appear is a book about genetic madness and how a family copes with it, I thought that she [the girl in the story] was an appropriate figure. She doesn't appear in the book, [except as] a ghostly figure that haunts them...an image that the children all have of this madness that they know is their lot in life...
Instead of waiting for our instructors to challenge our X, Y proclamations, we might reshape ourselves in the liberal tradition and throw off the shackles of identity labels. We might choose to resist the urge to adopt opinions that appear to derive from our identities and instead cloak ourselves in the liberal traditions of open-minded observation, logic, and close analysis. Instead of sticking by our favored X, Y constructions, maybe we should instead subscribe only to a single shared maxim: As a student, I feel curious...
...shots at a time in Virginia City, telling the bartender to put it on his tab: "Mark me for twain [two]." Twain wrote for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in the early 1860s, chronicling the town's gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections of that time also appear in his autobiographical Roughing It. The population has dwindled from 28,000 to 800, but the town remains lively. Families can stay at one of several 19th century hotels and tour the museums commemorating Twain and the strike-it-rich era. Children will particularly enjoy going underground to visit the Chollar...