The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Bob Highland:

Ah, the old nitrogen triiodide; the mere mention of it is enough to bring a tear to the glass eye of this erstwhile schoolboy.

How fondly I remember the day we applied some, moist, to the gown of a maths master after he had taken it off and hung it on the back of the classroom door before going to lunch. A man of habit and religion, on his return he shook the gown as usual to remove any chalk dust before putting it on.

What a rare treat it is, what a privilege, to witness a person undergo a surreal moment so transformative. A man may live to a great age without experiencing self-detonating vestments, but Horace Greasley, M.A. (Cantab) could thenceforth never make that claim. He began the lesson without comment, his enthusiasm for binomial expansions seemingly having deserted him as he droned on, staring straight ahead for the most part, but with an occasional nervous glance towards the heavens.

I wish I had $27.99. If I did, I'd order one of these fine dissertations, complete with its 100% satisfaction-guaranteed seal of approval. Then I'd put myself forward to write the piece under a nom-de-plume (R. Sole?), with a bunch of wonderfully fabricated qualifications that proved I was the only party worthy of doing justice to it.

Thinks: How much of my $27.99 would I get back for reading Travis Tea's travesty cover-to-cover and writing a report on it within 24 hours? Ten bucks? And if I were prepared to do something so degrading for so little, would I respect myself in the morning?

Well done, Travis Tea, Atlanta Nights is surely one of this decade's finest additions to the literary canon.

But I think it's time the guys 'fessed up. You wrote 'The DaVinci Code' too, didn't you?

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