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It is a famous mercantile export of Emberlain, and plays a key role in an elaborate confidence trick in the book. Butterscotch and Buttergin Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) Products marketed by Willy Wonka, the first used to make butterscotch and soda, the second used for buttergin and tonic. The Oompa-Loompas are very fond of both.
Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls is a humorous book first published by Methuen in 1974 which purports to have been written by a psychopathic character, Dr. Fegg. In fact, the book is the work of Terry Jones and Michael Palin, who adapted a range of material from scripts written for the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The following is a chronological list of notable sadomasochistic literature about or involving BDSM, both fictional and non-fictional.Both written literature and comics are included, but not films or video.
Marquise de Brinvilliers being tortured.. Water torture was used extensively and legally by the courts of France from the Middle Ages to the 17th and 18th centuries. It was known as being put to "the question", with the ordinary question involving the forcing of one gallon (eight pints or approximately 3.6 litres) of water into the stomach and the extraordinary question involving the forcing ...
A Barthelme collection like 'Sixty Stories' is a Whole Earth Catalogue of life in our time." [ 1 ] In The New York Times Book Review , critic John Romano called Barthelme a "comic genius," adding, "The will to please us, to make us sit up and laugh with surprise, is greater than the will to disconcert.
Irish soda bread is a staple of St. Patrick's Day. Folks have been enjoying the festive bread for over two centuries . Now it's a classic recipe to bring out every March 17th.
Common findings, determined by ultrasound of the bladder, include a slow rate of flow, intermittent flow, and a large amount of urine retained in the bladder after urination. A normal test result should be 20–25 ml/s peak flow rate. A post-void residual urine greater than 50 ml is a significant amount of urine and increases the potential for ...
Rock Springs is the first collection of short stories by author Richard Ford, published in 1987.. As with his earlier novels A Piece of My Heart (1976) and The Ultimate Good Luck (1981), the stories from Ford's debut collection are notable for both their lack of sentimentality and undercurrent of menace.