I feel like Bilbo Baggins addressing the Shire on his eleventieth birthday party: “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” I like exactly two of the stories in this collection a LOT and like when I get opportunities to reread but especially read them aloud or have them read aloud. And then I didn’t really care that much for almost any other in the whole […]
After creating a new residential area in the shape of a Mona Lisa jigsaw puzzle, the new owner went out & shot 6000 dogs. But this still left a dog pop. of 165, 000 to a human pop. of 89,000.
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme