i got the avram davidson out of widener! though, she says warily, if i commend it to people they might start recalling it and that would make me cross as asparagus (julian has made it impossible for me to say cross as two sticks.)

still, i will risk it.

"america, that great antiquity, observed sir thomas browne, lay buried in the urn for centuries. at least i think he did. something less bulky lay buried in my subliminal mind (for a shorter period), to wit, did dragons have kidney-stones? suddenly, and i don't know why, it came to me that what i had really been wondering waas, did dragons have gizzard-stones. and with that the entire matter of dragons seemed to leave the realm of the imaginary and enter that of the possible."

(from "an abundance of dragons" in adventures in unhistory, avram davidson.)