Poor Imp

Card games. Er, hey - easy to win if you're sharp, right? -Tov Neither. -Piers --- "Fake it 'til you make it." True?

Get wet. Er...what? expecting - ' jump in puddles '? -Tov The same bloody thing I'd do on a dry day. -Piers --- What's whimsy to you?

...been drinking something other than water? Sure. Always meet people with a moral. Er, Hell. A what? -Tov My moral? Bloody hell, like a story and you get to the ...

Sleep late. Right? Sleep really late if you get caught. -Tov --- Weakness is what?

(deadpan) Ouch. -Tov I suppose I clean it up, bandage it and, well, I keep my mind on that. It's never much. -Aleda Bloody Hell, react? ...ask questions like Tov. ...

Er, that would be a mistake, right? Sure, lots of people know the worst mistakes of their life were the worst before they make them. Makes perfect sense. Like the ...

Er, hey - could say a lot of things, right? With a straight face. Sure. That's an answer. -Tov --- Anyone you know with whom you talk without editing your ...

Sure. I count them and figure out which is the stupidest, right? Or I could just say answering this question. Er, could be true. Honest. -Tov ...Listening to Tov. Don't ...

I could say I didn't, right? Honest. ...And, ah, you could believe me. ...Sure. If you were stupid. Hey, it's not cheating if the point's to win, da? -Tov I ...

a gryphon? I'd thought he was a shark. And are those stereos - of some sort, blasting music around him? Or like Fish asks, dominoes? IMP

It's a neat image, altogether. There's something definitively '20's about her glance and expression. But she seems painfully off-balance on that stool. I've never seen a human being balance with ...

If I had thoughts on pudding, I'd be one of Frick's fruitcakes, da? ...been drinking what? -Tov Pudding? Bloody hell, thoughts on pudding? -Piers It's food, isn't it? Denver's men ...

A fist. Er, hey - should be able to eat anything stuck in your face, right? Bloody useless otherwise. -Tov --- Can you bear silence?

Gaudy Night -- Dorothy Sayers and The World to Come -- Dara Horn. Former's all fun; the latter's heavy with a light touch in prose, somehow. But it takes a ...

No. ...Hey, ever tried dropping a heart? Bloody messy; don't break. -Tov I suppose it might have and my head has felt cracked enough to make up for it if ...