And this, quickly, because the corn is cooking. And corn doesn't really take that long to cook.

The second book of Lev Grossman's trilogy is called The Magician King, which I was reading moments ago while the corn cooked but ran upstairs to share.  It goes ...

Lots of people say they've talked to dragons, but it's very hard to verify.  Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff.  At least after Syd Barrett left."

See?  Now stuff like this makes me smile.  And I have a limited tolerance for dragons in fiction.