Steve

“There is only so much one can do for the dead without joining them.

The Caravan from Troon”
― Kage Baker, Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2001

“Tracy stood up and found that the room was swaying around him in a manner that would have been more disconcerting if it had been less familiar.”
― Fredric Brown

“Darius was clearly of the opinion

that the air was also man's dominion.

And that with paddle or fin or pinion

we soon or late shall navigate

the azure, as now we sail the sea.

The thing looks simple enough to me.

And if you doubt it,

see how Darius reasoned about it.

"The birds can fly, an why can't I?

Must we give in?" says he with a grin,

"that the Blue bird and Feeby

Are smarter than we be?"


"Just fold our hands and see the Swalla,

and the Black bird and the Cat bird beat us holla?

Or tell me that chatterin' sassy little wren knows more 'en men?

Just show me that. Or prove that the bat

has got more brains than's in my hat,

an' I'll back down. An' not till then.”


From "Darius Green and His Flying Machine”
― John T. Trowbridge

“Higgledy-piggledy,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
High over Jutland flew
In from the East.
'Well,' quipped a Minister
Plenipotentiary,
'Something is Groton in
Denmark, at least.”
― Anthony Hecht, Jiggery Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, With a New Epilogue