Commander Lebedev wrote—‘After a communication session we invited Flight Engineer Savitskaya to the heavily laden table. We gave Sveta a blue floral print apron and told her, ‘Look, Sveta, even thoug...
But he had once told Watson that the less or fewer issue, along with the use of I in such sentences as He gave the money to Sheila and I, inflicted on the public by people who considered themselves we...
But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.
Asshole cunt peepee fuck. Ah, grinned Old Sludge, showing his one tooth, going to the company store to get some algae chewies, huh? Goddamn poopoo, I would grin back at him.
As your priest, says de Soya, I will warn you again about the use of profanity. As your commanding officer, I order you to come up with as many surprises as you can to kill that spiked son of a bitch....
And then Kassad was being helped out of his simulation creche at the Olympus Command School and the other cadets and instructors were rising, talking, laughing with one another--all seemingly unaware...
Alone with the Morlocks, thought Silenus. But not even Morlocks for company in the end. Only my muse. There
A thin line of beard along his jawline served to accent the sharpness of his countenance as surely as blood on a knife blade.
Жизнь дается лишь раз, и она несчастна, убога, отвратительна, жестока и коротка.
Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons —
Wanted to know how any ethical system—much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it—could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter his son.
There must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level … that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.
The population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg’s day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even...
The difference between finding the right word as opposed to accepting the almost right word was the difference between being struck by lightning and merely watching a lightning display.
She returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.
It’s the mind analogy that bothers Crozier the most. Haunted and plagued by melancholia much of his life, knowing it as a secret weakness made worse by his twelve winters frozen in arctic darkness as...
Him to shoot anyone who even looked cross-eyed at him. Web English is such a subtle tongue, he said. That phrase is older than the Web, I said. Just do it.
He spied what appeared to be a crystal scarab rotating far above him, its insides ablaze with cool lights.
Each time I hear the bells toll the brief notes of the early hours of the morn, I imagine ghostly hands pulling rotting bell ropes. Or perhaps rotting hands pulling ghostly bell ropes; I don’t know wh...
Driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heavens will; She can, though every fa...