Explore "They Twinkled Like Jewels" by Philip José Farmer on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
How easy it would have been to miss all this, if only he had obeyed his father. But Mr. Crane was so ineffectual.
"Jackie," he had said, "would you please go outside and play, or stay in some other room. It's very difficult to discuss business while you're whooping and screaming around, and I have a lot to discuss with Mr. -- "