Humanity had become as blasé about sharing their lives with potential AI monitoring as pre-Civil War Old Earth USA-southern families had been about speaking in front of their human slaves.
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
Context is to data what water is to a dolphin
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
—Was I a swordsman then? sends Johnny. Or a poet? [Yes There is never one without the other]
Tourists smelling of UV lotion and cannabis.
Even the Pyramids and other great works were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton.
We are created precisely for this type of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear ou...
We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear ou...
Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some l...
To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mothe...
This is some sort of joke, isn't it? asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed fro...
Theoretically, I knew, Sholokov’s design for the hawking mat allowed it to fly vertically, the incipient containment field keeping the passenger—theoretically, his beloved niece—from tumbling off back...
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I
THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS FOR. GOODBYE
She almost smiled at the justice of it, at her ultimate foolishness in thinking that she could uncage chaos and then control it.
Sarai had treasured every stage of Rachel's childhood, enjoying the day-to-day normalcy of things; a normalcy which she quietly accepted as the best of life. She had always felt that the essence of hu...
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality, she said, setting her cup of tea on a flat stone. The silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion,