Favourite Quotes

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

Cassie wrote:

> I thought I should start a thread about favourite quotes 
> from....anything! 

I'm having favourite quote overload at the moment, reading Lemony 
Snicket.  Here are two, which I can't quite get verbatim.

>From The Reptile Room:

(Uncle Monty is explaining herpetology to the Baudelaire 
children) "...and on no account to let the Virginian Wolfsnake near 
a typewriter."

>From Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorised Autobiography (that title 
alone deserves a prize):

"Another editor's note: Some of the photographs in this collection 
were taken by Julie Blattberg."  Beside it is stuck a yellow sticky 
saying: "Rewrite another editor's note to say 'Some of the 
photographs in this collection were not taken by Julie Blattberg'"

Given that the UA has a character called Esme Squalor, I think this 
is a series that is redefining the boundary between adult and 
children's fiction with a vengeance.

David