# memorable lines *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Aug 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### m.driussi *21 Aug 1997, 16:21* Reply: Item #4965290 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Since I can't remember where everybody's favorite line (which goes something like "we are like children who, looking at a word, become frightened by the serpent we see in the next to last letter and the sword we see in the last") (and I say "everybody's" because I have seen it mentioned many times, and I like it too), I'll post the first line of SHADOW chapter four: "I had been poking a stick up a frozen drain as punishment for some petty infraction, and I found him where the keepers of the Bear Tower throw their refuse, the bodies of the torn animals killed in practice." The first part always makes me laugh; the middle part introduces some pathos almost antithetical to the initial humor; the last part has us nose to nose with Death. =mantis= ---