Fifty-Fifth Book Murderers I Have Known : Marina Warner
Vintage UK : 2003
Bought at Strand Book Store for $3.50+

Started 1.26.05
Finished 1.28.05

The Line: "He has a kind of fresh briny smell as if he had been swiming in some sea before the motor car was invented, before the industrial revolution, when the word pollution merely meant ritual defilement, menstruating girls in temples, not soapy poisons frothing on the tideline and the river banks" (39).

A bowl of ice cubes
flipped upside down put the peace
in Medusa's laugh.
  ¶ 17:53