On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, C. Richard Davies wrote:
But ever since then everyone's been walking around on ... I think they're
called eggshells, but that doesn't really make a lot of sense because from what
I've seen eggshells are really brittle and break easily so why would anyone
walk around on them?
Quite.
"One begins to long to come across a female protagonist called,
say, Naomi the Castrator. One could tell her to look up John
Norman for a start." -- Michael Moorcock, "Wizardry and Wild Romance"
Heh.
John Walter Biles : MA-History, ABD, Ph.D Candidate at U. Kansas
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"That all princes shall kiss the foot of the Pope alone."--Dictatus Papae,
11th century