Pamuk wins! (via B*yond th* B*yond)


"In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were "German dogs." They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds." --Molly Ivins


Portunhol.


"Once a story-in-progress has thoroughly established itself as SF [e.g. the presence of technology recognizable as such], what single piece of set-dressing might transform it into fantasy? Teresa Nielsen Hayden was once asked this question, and gave the best answer I've heard yet. 'The Holy Grail,' she said." --Patricia Ni*ls*n Hayd*n, intro to Starlight 2 (1998)


"And zig-zagged through the grey-green mountain sage" --Alfr*d Noy*s