The stream ran through the parking lot two to three feet deep and tore up tiles and filled the pool with mud.

This was a minor rain. This was about a five to 10 year average flood.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

Let's say I park in Lot 3B in the parking lot, ... I might see my car with three large bumble bees hovering over it. I got stung by a bee when I was a kid so it has an emotional charge, and it's easier to remember.

They tore his fingernails out and he started to tell things.