That merely glimpsing three good wooden boxes on a baggage-wain could lead to such broodings made Daniel wonder that he could get out of bed in the morning. Once, he had feared that old age would brin...
Talking to a black-and-white on the Street is like talking to a person who has his face stuck in a xerox machine, repeatedly pounding the copy button, while you stand by the output tray pulling the sh...
THE QUILL SWIRLED and lunged over the page in a slow but relentless three-steps-forward, two-steps-back sort of process, and finally came to a full stop in a tiny pool of its own ink. Then Louis Phély...
THE APOSTOLIC CAFÉ had expanded its offerings to include Euclid’s Grill—casual buffet by day, fine dining by night, served in the former nave.
Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
Some of them, out of habit, looked at him soberly; etiquette dictated that you give all sympathy to the oppressed.
So she spends until about eleven A.M. reading, re-reading, and understanding the new changes in the Project. There are many of these, because this is a Monday morning and Marietta and her higher-ups s...
Smart, rabidly paranoid people are the backbone of cryptology,
She was just in the process of proving them all desperately wrong. But at this phase, the all-male society of bitheads that made up the power structure of Black Sun Systems said that the face problem...
She just didn’t think it decent to live in a place where there were no coffee shops to have breakfast in when she woke up,
She had stayed inside so that she could watch it on the TV in the room, let him know how it had looked on video, how the commentators and pundits had framed it. It
She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of her soul (Yay, going on a trip!) even as her higher brain was ticking off all the bad things that coul...
She considered hypothesis 3 to be quite unlikely, since she didn’t feel the least bit psychopathic, but included it in the list out of respect for the scientific method.
Se podían haber planteado todo tipo de argumentos filosóficos sobre si ese enfoque era mejor o peor que lo que estaban haciendo en realidad, pero, en el fondo, la filosofía no contaba demasiado.
Say more about the Crips and the Bloods, Richard said, stalling for time while he tried to get his mental house in order. To us they look the same. Urban black kids with similar demographics and taste...
Randy says, You asked me earlier what is the highest and best purpose to which we could dedicate our lives. And the obvious answer is ‘to prevent future Holocausts.’ Avi laughs darkly. I’m glad it’s o...
RESUMES: Just recall the opening reel of The Magnificent Seven and you won’t have to bother with this part; you should crawl to us on hands and knees and beg us for the privilege of paying our salarie...
Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.
People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently—and generally better—than people who serve other masters. So it is like believing in God. Maybe yes. But without the theo...
Paris to Jack and most others, then, was a network of deep trenches with vertical walls, and a few drafty battlements atop those walls—otherwise, the world’s largest collection of closed and locked do...