Earlier, I stepped on a squid that had propelled itself over the bulwarks! (Its eyes & beak reminded me of my father-in-law.)
I managed to smile, thinking how Modesty is Vanity’s craftier stepbrother.
Trees're always a relief, after people.
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay Tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, Ewi...
Speak to me about power. What is it? I do believe I’m being out-Cambridged. You want me to discuss power? Right here and now? Her shapely head tilts. No time except the present. Okay. Only for a ten....
Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules, only outcome...
Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just the same.
Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn′t fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we c...
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is this the doom written within our nature? If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, i...
Have you noticed, said John, how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
Five years later, I take a deep, shuddery breath to stop myself crying. It’s not just that I can’t hold Aoife again, it’s everything: It’s grief for the regions we deadlanded, the ice caps we melted,...
Or, if he’s feeling more poetic, it might be Now, Frobisher, the clarinet is the concubine, the violas are yew trees in the cemetery, the clavichord is the moon, so … let the east wind blow that A min...
What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shift...
For White man, life is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more.
Well, Hae-Joo probed, what did I do to relax? I play Go against my sony, I said.To relax? he responded, incredulous. Who wins, you or the sony?The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve?So winn...
Come now, what's a reviewer? I reasoned. One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...
What happens to all the seconds tipped into the bin of the past?
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to po...
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