You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and… — Tibor Fischer

Methods Used

1. Marxist: You decide you're the vanguard of the proletariat and then you can do whatever you want because history will back you up.

2. Stoic: Stay very calm.

3. Positivist: Yes, I'm positive I want to rob this bank.

Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.

Jocelyne clicked her barbell on her teeth. I was watching her closely for signs of collapsing romance. Her tongue was pierced, (a process, she had elaborated, that had taken two weeks of painful healing) and it put me in mind of the tongue-piercing ceremony endured on October 28, 709 AD by the principal wife of Shield Jaguar, Blood Lord of Yaxchilan (Lintel 24); i.e. to my eye, pointless, but if it's good enough for the Mayans ...