Vasco de Gama took her in his arms. He was a copper, a watersnake, a vascular surgeon on vacation. Everything went crazy and they gave her a standing ovulation.

The carotid was uncommonly hard to slice, more giblet than sweetbread.

Or did she mean gizzard? The blue heart like a stone.

She spat Jack Sprat from her mouth in one deft slice, she was Ophelia, sister to D'Artagnan, lover of Les Trois Mousquetaires.

You think it is all comic? There is real evil in this world and we have to root it out by the root. (She took his unlovely member in her mouth and, a watersnake, sucked the venom out.)

The way to heal a snakebite was to cut slashes across the affected part.

The blue heart like a stone.

Athos, Pathos, and Thanatos.

You have the right to remain perfectly silent.

You have the right to remain eternally silent.

You have the right to silence.

Or fire.

You have silence.