Book Excerpt for the Day

    "Boy," said Gannell, "you gotta know your name in this world.  I mean, you gotta know who you are.  Now, you get born smelling of apples and feeling like you gonna die rich - you're Shando.  You come in smelling sheep and feeling like you might have two krets to leave your woman - you're Karli."

    Gannell took a long drink and sighed pleasurably as the liquor warmed its way down.  "But boy, when you get born smelling sh*t and can't even find a hunk to sell for manure - you know your badluck ass is Wengen!"

(from The Masters of Solitude by Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin)


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