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  • My favorite adaptations and in my opinion the bestare the ones that Timothy Hutton, Michael Jaffe et al did with the Nero Wolfe stories.

    Food For Thought: Shadows on the Wall Michael Alan Nelson 2009

  • The pavement demands attention, being inlaid so curiously as to represent variety of histories taken from Holy Writ, and designed in the true style of that hobgoblin tapestry which used to bestare the halls of our ancestors.

    Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

  • The pavement demands attention, being inlaid so curiously as to represent variety of histories taken from Holy Writ, and designed in the true style of that hobgoblin tapestry which used to bestare the halls of our ancestors.

    Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801

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