Pendergast moved with a feline grace, using the waxing moon as his only source of light
Nobody knows what language is. It isn’t just speech, that’s for sure. But try to explain that to some of these reductionist structural linguists.
No! was a constant refrain in our house after Jennie arrived. Hugo told me I used to shout it in my sleep!
New York City. Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.
Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber.
Moby Dick is my favorite book —I’ve been rereading it every year since I was sixteen. ‘Call me Ishmael’ is the greatest first line in a novel ever written.I, myself, am not fond of animal stories.
Kibbencook was not a hotbed of radicalism, and even antiwar marches were organized with a certain decorum. It was a thoroughly suburban protest.
Instead she violently signed Bite, angry, angry, bite! with both hands right in my face. It was an astonishing and very intimidating performance.
I would ask the reader to pause for a moment and ponder the statistics. Statistics are mere numbers; they need to be translated into human experience. What would a 90 percent mortality rate mean to th...
I suppose the whole thing was highly irregular from a legal point of view, but it was great fun. And nobody was having more fun than the judge. It wasn’t a real trial, you see, so he didn’t have to wo...
I do not begrudge the average American his ignorance. It’s a free country. But when you have elected officials, people who wield enormous power, who flaunt their ignorance, that is a different matter.
God bless the disgruntled employee—no one does more to bring openness to government.
Far more than the casual recreation we think of when it comes to games of skill in Mesoamerican cultures the ball game was a sacred ritual that reenacted the struggle between the forces of good and ev...
At what point in evolution did man acquire the knowledge of good and evil, and thus the capacity to be damned? In this light, the story of Adam and Eve takes on deeper significance. It is a parable of...
The Mosquitia civilization vanished everywhere all at once—in a sudden, civilization-wide catastrophe.
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His face. Fenton was never one to like a slow day. The look was enough to tell Barnaby that something big had just come down. Hutch? Hmmm? Fenton went on, breathlessly. The Broadbent place was robbed....
You mean, let our most excellent Congress deal with this situation in the same way it has handled our other pressing national problems, such as global warming, terrorism, education, and our crumbling...
Wine is like many of the finer things in life, which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.
This was a Third World disease attacking First World people. The world is now divided into Third and First, not Old and New. Pathogens once confined to the Third World are now making deadly inroads in...