Miner Forty Niner

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    Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.
    Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)

    Ellie: Aren’t you going to give me a little credit?
    Peter: What for?
    Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
    Peter: Why didn’t you take off all your clothes. You could have stopped forty cars.
    Ellie: Ooohh, I’ll remember that when we need forty cars.
    Robert Riskin (1897–1955)