So which theory did Lagos believe in? Therelativist or the universalist?He did not seem to think there was much of a difference. In the end, they areboth somewhat mystical. Lagos believed that both sc...
She turns the speedometer off. Running totally black now. Precipitating her way toward the sweet 'crete of the creek bottom like a black angel who has just had the shroud lines of her celestial parach...
People tried and failed to combine the words Izzy and Ymir. The closest they came was Izmir, but that had been the name of a city in Turkey.
One of my professors has interesting things to say about the similarity between the way organ pipes are controlled by keys and stops, and the way random-access memory bits are read by computers.
Olivia imagined a D-day-style invasion of the island, gardeners with saws and shovels parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches—and were being liberated from the thorny or flowery embrace of...
Now, there was a time when we believed that what a human mind could accomplish was determined by genetic factors. Piffle, of course, but it looked convincing for many years, because distinctions betwe...
My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to
Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you. Eliza could not help laughing.
Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.
Maybe that's how great warriors do it. Carelessly, not wracking their minds with the consequences.
Like any librarian in Reality, this daemon can move around without audible footfalls.
It is inherent in the mentality of extramuros bulshytt-talkers that they are more prone than anyone else to taking offense (or pretending to) when their bulshytt is pointed out to them. This places th...
It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere.
It had a quaint twentieth-century feel and made Nell oddly nostalgic for the days when dangerousness was a function of mass and bulk. The passives of that era were so fun to watch, with their big, stu...
In olden times, you’d wander down to Mom’s Cafe for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home. It worked just fine if you never left your hometown. But if you went to the next t...
If this all seems ambiguous, that’s because it is; and if that troubles you, you’d hate it here; but if it gives you a feeling of relief, then you are in the right place and might consider staying.
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different—it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind,...
If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy.
If he had thought about this, it would have bothered him, because sigmaself > sigmaother has troubling implications—particularly if the values of these quantities w.r.t. the all-important sigmac are n...
I was discussing it with my teacher, over the jeejah—no pictures, just our voices. We had this long talk about this nerve and the muscles and ligaments around it and how I should manipulate them to he...