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June 12, 2006
Infinite Amusement with Dan Brown
Closing the book on the lousiest story ever sold : Mail & Guardian Online
The past 10 years of his life had savaged the dilapidated novelist. His cheeks, once chubby and flushed, were flaking onion-skin drawn tight over a mangrove swamp of burst blood vessels; and his eyes -- little round beads that had blinked quizzically from the back covers of 500-million paperbacks -- were useless egg-whites swimming in two oily pans. He sank deeper into his chair, and listened to the indistinct shrieks coming from outside, where his great-grandchildren -- Mary Magdalene, John-Judas Junior, Phil the Baptist and little Gomorrah-Sue -- were sticking knitting needles into a wax effigy of Dostoyevsky.
That Gomorrah-Sue is the real kicker!
Posted by Steven Riddle at June 12, 2006 5:13 PM
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