We’re getting awfully close to “With spider’s oil the lamps of Salem burn.” It’s not spider’s oil, but it’s in a spider-centric novel, and any sort of creepy-crawly being a source of lamp oil is a pretty unusual idea.
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After baptism
Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses came up recently in a highly unlikely coincidence, as described in my last post, " Baptism ...
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Following up on the idea that the pecked are no longer alone in their bodies , reader Ben Pratt has brought to my attention these remarks by... -
Disclaimer: My terms are borrowed (by way of Terry Boardman and Bruce Charlton) from Rudolf Steiner, but I cannot claim to be using them in ... -
That's Bruce's coinage, from an email, though likely one that's been independently invented by others as well. I thought it was ...
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