This yarn seemed apocryphal at best.
That's one of several ironies in this yarn.
Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley returned to the craft of extracting and weaving this yarn again.
The reason for dredging up this yarn is what it says about a latter-day New York City law.
This last assertion, according to Rabbi Boteach, was based largely on information he received unsolicited from a stranger, Daniel Nicherie, the former convict in this yarn.
Will British Airways alter anything about its customer service — at the Delhi airport, on the phone, on its Web site — as a result of this yarn?
The best things about this yarn are scenes of ominous grinding machinery of the kind found in railway yards, as well as several zany gadgets worthy of Rube Goldberg.
But it's obvious that Barry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist, and Pearson, a best-selling novelist, had a grand time spinning this yarn, about the evil Lord Ombra, who steals people's shadows, turning his victims into obedient zombies.
In this yarn of a glamorous incomer from India who seduces Italy, many will seek for echoes of his former wife, once a prime-time host on Italian television.
"We just love all of this yarn-bombing that goes on around the country and thought doing that to the bike would be great".
