“…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination”
“It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.”
“Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.”
“SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MYSTERY AUTHOR”
“Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends”
“International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.”