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perspective of day

"In the sunshine of the morning, beneath the wide, blue heavens, with a fresh wind astir, what fears, except the most desperate, can find a harbourage? In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death."

-- Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

add to your bookshelf

The illustrations in this guidebook are fantastic. They outline combat styles for two people by utilizing ditches and other techniques. This is going between World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide on my shelf. Which is easily accessible and I head for my shelter for when the attack comes.

great bully quote

We've all had to deal with bullies. As kids or adults, bullies are just... out there. I'm reading a great book called Drood by Dan Simmons. It's a historical fiction book about the last five years of Charles Dickens' life during which he becomes obsessed with a person named Drood. Based, of course, on a real unsolved mystery in Dickens' life.

"But there has always been the pungent scent of the schoolhouse bully hovering about our dear Mr. Field and bullies always tend to overreach and be called to task."

Merely insert the name of your tormenter into that sentence. I know I felt better when I did.