#I didn't want to include that whole Alan Bennett quote about 'a hand has come out and taken yours' but if you know

[thesarahshay]

I love the internet for informing me that, in 1985, someone in California named Wildon Fickett published a science textbook titled "Introduction to Detonation Theory," in which each chapter is headed by an epigraph, the first of which is a few lines from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, my favorite poet, and the last two of which are the two halves of a sonnet by Dorothy Sayers, one of my favorite authors.

I may never know why this man chose these poems to adorn a textbook about explosives, but I am so glad to know he did.