
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 11
From Hardison's spy novel "The Last Drop"
Quoted in "Classical, Renaissance, and Postmodern Acts of the Imagination" by Arthur Kinney http://books.google.com/books?id=NpNOU3kJAD0C&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&source=web&ots=vhkDdUq2Dy&sig=MCZnorjkogp_lJn5rupUacGII5I
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 11
“Sure, some people are nice. Real nice. Nice like carpets so you can walk all over them.”
16.04.1979 - p.31
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Context: Loving paradox, Brooks, with the advantages of ten years' study, had swept away much rubbish in the effort to build up a new line of thought for himself, but he found that no paradox compared with that of daily events. The facts were constantly outrunning his thoughts. The instability was greater than he calculated; the speed of acceleration passed bounds. Among other general rules he laid down the paradox that, in the social disequilibrium between capital and labor, the logical outcome was not collectivism, but anarchism; and Henry made note of it for study.
“It is of course a magic carpet.”
Abdullah had heard that one before. He bowed over his tucked-up hands. "Many and various are the virtues said to reside in carpets," he agreed. "Which one does the poet of the sands claim for this? Does it welcome a man home to his tent? Does it bring peace to the hearth? Or maybe," he said, poking the frayed edge suggestively with one toe, "it is said to never wear out?"
Source: Castle Series, Castle in the Air (1990), pp. 16-17.
“But that's men all over… Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.”
Source: Busman's Honeymoon
“YOU BASTARD! Come to my carpet shop.”
No Agenda (2007)