Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
angles, lots of spangles.  And spanners.  Get the order wrong, and i-
  

    

 mediately, the chef will call the kitchen crew together, 
 signal the bar tender to begin mixing 
 another round of bloody m-
  

    
arguritas--especially dangerous because of the overproofed absolute
mixed with tequilla.  We discovered that combo one night at P-
  

    
etula Clark's house. We'd broken in while she was away on va-
  

    
grancy charges, having been picked up behind a se-
  

    
rvice station trying to break into the storage locker where they k-
  

    
eep the warthog distillery equipment. F-
  

    
ortunately, no warthogs were harmed during the op-
  

    
ening ceremony -- but there were a few pissed-off peccaries in the back r-
  

    
otunda, and they started throwing t-
  

    
omatoes.  Not the most effective strategy when you're dealing with an-
  

    
tique furnishings, but I've been assured that we can remove the
residue without damage if we use g-
  

    
enuine NUCULAR (tm) brand STAIN-BLASTER!  It's the last word in clean-
  

    
slate technology, leaving only a matrix of pure background radiation a
  

    
Nobel Laureate like Arno Penzias would love.  Arno and Petula were an i-
  

    
ntelligence fiasco; the agency is still reverberating with w-
  

    
arbling and the gentle "clickckickclikckck" of the Geiger counters. With all
those reverberations, it's a wonder they ever get any spooking done. Not
like in the old days, no! Why I remember the Golden Age of Intelligence,
when so-
  

    
cialists were secretly in charge of the m-
  

    
edicine cabinet and everyone seemed to be kinder to each other than th-
  

    
eosophists... I've always been a bit suspicious of their b-
  

    
unny rabbits and ice cream cones. But that's what comes from we-
  

    
aving small animals with dairy products. It's surely not k-
  

    
inky enough for those of us in the know! Oh well, s-
  

    
ome's going to pay for this.  Get the vice principal in here im-
  

    
bibing on this fine pulque while we figure out what to do next.

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Usually in this kind of circumstance we wait for the pre-