Barry Longyear

“Lawn roller? ... What is it for?"Why it is for rolling lawns."I shook my head and laughed back at him. "Do I look like I have hay in my ears fellow? Just why, madman, would anyone want to roll a lawn? There would be nothing left but mud, and the grass would die from lack of sun."No, Korvas. Rolling means to flatten."No, it doesn't. A roller rollsa a flattener flattens."Obushawn sighed and nodded. "Very well, it is a lawn flattener. It's for flattening lawns."I see no purpose in it. If I wanted a flat lawn, that's what I would have planted in the first place. I think you are a failure at business, you obviously drink to excess, and beat your wife, dog, and children, you steal from the temple and blind beggars, and are most likely well on your way to being put away in a home. I do not want to talk to you anymore. Go away.”