David Eddings burns his office down

[danohu]

"I was down in my garage when it happened," David Eddings told
reporters outside the smouldering remains of his office in Carson City,
Nevada, "making reparis to my broken-down Excalibur sports car. I was
using water to flush out the gas tank when some fluid started leaking
out, and I began wondering what the hell it was. I didn't want to leave
a tankful of gasoline slowly leaking onto the garage floor, so I lit a
piece of paper and threw it into the puddle of liquid, to test if it was
flammable. In retrospect, I can see that this was a lapse of judgement
on my part." [Private Eye]

Also: in Cambridge for the weekend!