"Beginning with my brother’s Tintin books made the most sense. They had pictures. I took one down at random, sat on the floor, and turned the pages. I don’t think I could tell you how it happened, but by the time a cow who went into a building came out through a faucet that made sausages, I had disco"
"Lying on the bottom, they looked like mute Lady Castafiores—the fat lady in the Tintin comic books, the one always singing loudly off key. Their modey colors made them seem like plump, fur-coated sausages, or like great chunks of ghosdy white bacon fat with bright tattoos. There could be nothing mor"