If this sounds like strange talk from a scientist—so be it. If there is one thing I have learned from a lifetime study of science, it is that the world is not a place we human beings will ever compreh...
I looked around at all the people talking and eating. And it suddenly seemed to me that all these people were apes: chattering, masticating, perambulating, gesticulating apes. Big grotesque hairless a...
I don’t know jack about wine, sorry. You should learn. It is one of the true and ancient pleasures that make human existence tolerable.
I could see the reporter scribbling away as if his life depended on it. I suppose for him it was the scoop of a lifetime. Here he’d probably been sitting around for months doing the Kibbencook courtho...
Finally, you’ll tell the truth. I’ve read so many lies about the project I can hardly stand it. If this book can set the record straight—well, you’ll be doing us a service. And I hope you won’t mind i...
Finally she spoke.We don’t have much time. She paused, looking at him steadily. I need to tell you something, Tom. What? It seems I’ve fallen in love with you. Reality returned with sudden clarity. To...
Every year he would select a few projects that he felt had no merit and would award them a golden fleece. As in fleecing the taxpayers.
But we were just picnicking friends
But I also know this anomaly is something you won’t let drop until you get to the bottom of it.
Bending over the severed neck, his face less than an inch from the wound, he maneuvered his tweezers under the loupe, dug them into the neck—D’Agosta almost had to turn away—and stretched out what loo...
The shudder of fear is as sensual as the shudder of pleasure, if not more so.
The guilt and suffering of Judas Escariot. I do not believe, however, that the congregation took to it. I asked the question: Was Judas chosen for the deed? It was prophesied, was it not? Where, then,...
Talus
Sometimes she didn’t know her own strength, and she didn’t understand that people were a lot more fragile than she was. Sometimes she was rougher than she intended, you see. Did you know that a full-g...
Parasitology is one of the lower-paying of all the medical specialties. To go into the field, you have to truly care about helping people.
On for the rest of my life. That evening, Virgilio joined us at dinner. I asked him about the clear-cutting that checkerboarded the jungle we had flown over. He was shocked and concerned by what he’d...
Chip, a credit card, a small hypodermic needle and syringe, some duct tape, and a tiny capsule of brown liquid. Pocketing the items, he exited the bathroom and darted down the hall to guard station 7....
You, he began. You bastards. Silence. Where was the FBI these past four days? This was your fault—your fault! His voice, starting out in a whisper, crescendoed by the end into a roar, spittle flecking...
You just put your boot so far up his ass, he’ll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn. I can always count on you for a suitable bon mot.
While the utterances remained mostly one to three words, the facial expressions and body language became more and more sophisticated. You see, the problem is that this result was very difficult to qua...