" 'It’s E, see? Three of ‘em in that p’ticelr name Keeler. Well, it means ‘at ev’ry t’ird line from the end of the story back for, twenty or thirty say, is culled out by strikin’ off the other two. And the e’s in each of them lines.’ Rudy stopped, perceiving that there might not be but one or two. 'The e’s,' he amended quickly, 'plus the typewriter spaces in each of them lines counted, see? And the count in each spells out a few words--by alp’bet’cal places, see? Like 1 for A, 2 for B--an’ so on, see?'
'Well, I’ll be damned!' commented Caldwell, almost admiringly." --Harry Stephen Keeler and Hazel Goodwin, The Case of the Transposed Legs (1948)

"Injustice is the binding force that makes our false world cohere. We can no more think of a world without injustice than a world without gravity. (Money is only the visible sign of this relation.)" --Jack Nastyface, Tsunami (1969)

"The number one killer in the world is dysentery, but you don't see anyone going around wearing brown ribbons, do you?" --Katherine Russell Rich, The Red Devil (1999)