Over breakfast this morning I read The Wide Window, the third book in Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” There’s really not much to say about these once you’ve read a few, so I’ll refer you all to Pam’s review and leave you with some legal advice:
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it might be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.