Crap in the Cloud. A novel of celestial sewage.
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think whe...
—I don’t know how I’ll be as a shaman. I’ll find out when I try it. You both know me. You’ve known me since before we even had names. I can’t travel in my dreams, or above the sky. There aren’t any sp...
Policymakers think a world police state for a few decades or so
People six hundred years later are still complaining about violence inflicted on their ancestors. I think you will find that in most of those cases, there are fresh or current problems that are being...
Why are we here?''To make more love.''All right, fair enough. But how do we best love this world Allah gave us? We do it by learning it! [...] If you try to understand things, if you look at the world...
Thus physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology, sociology, history, the arts all interpenetrate each other and cohere if considered as a single convergent study. The physical studies scaffold our unde...
This noisy black creature would be the start of it all: a horse startled, his eye round, scraped white around it, a white tear streak under the eye, also scraped. Mouth open as it whinnied in protest...
Things are sold for less than it costs to make them. ... lots of business do go bankrupt. The ones that don't haven't actually sold their thing for more than it costs to make. They've just ignored som...
They needed to be an independent state, sovereign perhaps, semiautonomous at least. Semiautonomy might be enough, given the realities of the two worlds; semiautonomy would justify calling it a free Ma...
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
Then it's a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes and trying any old thing.
The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecra...
Slow is not the same as deficient. It's just slow. A glacier is slow too, but it gets there, and nothing stops it.
Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes.
Reality is mathematical, as long as you understand that uncertainty and contingency can be mathematically described, without them becoming any more certain.
Pöpper called that monocausotaxophilia,
People didn’t understand that true intimacy did not consist of sexual intercourse, which could be done with strangers and in a state of total alienation; intimacy consisted of talking for hours about...
Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act. Few could be expecte...