Jasper Fforde Quotes
If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
Fforde, Jasper. The Well of Lost Plots. Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.
Hubert H. Humphrey, the Vice President-elect, departed from his presidentially cleared text in giving a speech on education. The President was not happy with this independence:
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Jasper Fforde is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels. He has published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, and has published the first books of two additional independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.