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Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. Martin, Martin, Martin, she said, the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg’s day....
Sol 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 hi...
Planck time and Planck length, I said. I don’t remember exactly—something about combining the three fundamental constants of physics—gravity, Planck’s constant, and the speed of light. I remember it g...
HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER
Thighs flesh rather than steel, her groin matted from the moisture of their passion. Her face is dark, the sun behind her, but he sees red flames dying in the multifaceted pits of her eyes. She smiles...
People scream and run for coyer.
If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.
I nodded, understanding nothing.
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
Weltschmerz
The universe just does not give a shit.
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
Its hard to die. Harder to live
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
In the last few months, perhaps because he has had no one to speak to -- or at least no interlocutor who can respond with actual out-loud speech -- he has learned how to let different parts of his min...
From what Paul tells me, said the Monsignor, the Consul was true to his convictions, faithful to the memory of his grandmother Siri.
Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.
Vise,