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...household of Ampliatus, one of Pompeii's plutocrats, which brings him into contact with Ampliatus' sexy daughter and leads him to the mystery of his predecessor's sudden disappearance. Harris has a field day with the debauched goings-on at Ampliatus'--the menu includes honeyed mice, parrot tongues, a sow's udder stuffed with kidneys (with the sow's vulva on the side) and a moray eel fattened on human flesh...
...have no patience with people who say their God is bigger than that of others. In fact, it's mere nonsense and maliciousness, especially in reference to Christians, Muslims and Jews, all of whom believe in one God. Religious fundamentalists of any faith who slander and sow hatred against those of a different creed are using religion as an excuse for pursuing their personal worldly interests. In a spiritual way, we are all God's children. So let's stop hating and killing each other. Dietrich Hucke Jena, Germany
...roommates was half-Finnish, and coached us on the correct pronunciation of sauna (“Not ‘saw-na!’ There’s no such thing as a ‘saw-na.’ It’s ‘sow-ow-na!”); another, of Uruguayan descent, explained the finer points of gender roles in Uruguay, as well as why she found bad Uruguay-related puns so unfunny; a third taught us Greek invectives. Neither was cultural identification a phenomenon limited to my room; at the activities fair...
...suppose there’s nothing inherently wrong with adulthood. What troubles me is—and please forgive me my generalizations—the danger of our passing directly from sober childhood to sober adulthood. What troubles me is the danger of our being too intent on someday sowing grass seed in our front yards in Greenwich, Connecticut, to ever sow any wild oats. It is not our precocious adulthood that troubles me so much as our precocious yuppiedom...
...Once, as if by mistake, and in order to sow the seeds for deeper frustration, the Tigers won the Japan Series (once, that is, in 68 years). But otherwise, as with the Cubs of America (Osaka is perennially called Japan's Chicago), their place in the national pageant, and the seasonal order, is as the lovable bumpkin and comic prop. This year, though, not according to plan, the Tigers soared into first place in April and then refused to leave. They trounced the Giants, again and again (and their rivals' woes are compounded by the fact that...