“The result was that Preston successfully negotiated quite a few decades without ever coming within hailing distance of puberty. In this state of arrested development, he defiantly lived through many a perverse adventure. And he still lives in the pages of those books I wrote about him, though I stopped writing them some years ago.””
“Olive Thomas,””
“There was no hard liquor license in Preston, except for package goods.””
“It’s too bad,” said Thomas. “An examination of those bones could document precisely what the Indians have argued, that they were badly mistreated by the missionaries during that period.””
“Apparently, the mystic poet Thomas Merton was right when he described himself as “a member of a human race which is no more (and no less) ridiculous than I am myself.”[5]””
Thomas Preston was a notable figure in the realm of literature and education, particularly recognized for his contributions to the understanding of mythology. His most prominent work, "A Handy Diction...