Have you heard of Lord Dunsany? Yeah, me neither. But I came across him when I was studying up on
H.P. Lovecraft. He was a big Lovecraft influence. "And a great white owl came by, going up and down in the dark." All right? So IN THE LAND OF TIME, a collection of stories by Lord Dunsany, is
a book with an owl in it, so shut up. So
all I do is tell you when I read a book with an owl in it, so what? And
every book has an owl in it, so it takes up a lot of my time, and my work and relationships inevitably suffer, so leave me alone. What do you do?
Save sick babies? Well, okay, that's pretty good.