A major street intersects, at something other than a ninety-degree angle, a smaller commercial street, defining two (smaller) acute-angle lots and two (larger) obtuse-angle lots. On one side of the ma...
This is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them,...
—Creo que lo que Camila quiere decir es que ciertos tipos de personalidad, si se llevan al extremo, son tan negativos como una enfermedad mental; si no peores
With the perky vigor of a man who had sat through one too many free webinars about the importance of networking.
While people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others.
Us—I looked at that beautiful snow-capped mountain and named it Eliza. Because it was warm, fertile, and beautiful below, while being a bit frosty and inaccessible at the top—yet possessing a volcanic...
There are no jaded, bored people in the high-tech industry, in the land of really good hardcore geeks. They all have a kind of intensity about what they’re doing that makes it impossible for them to b...
The federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.
Scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings.
Overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it.
Organizers had been able to find interpreters for. First up on the dais was Mary Bulinski, the United States secretary of the interior, an inveterate hiker and climber, spry at sixty. By training she...
One (everything looks the same in America, there are no transitions now).
Nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read. Elsewhere
Its speedometer. But the bamboo grove in Bobby Shaftoe’s haiku has not been added just to put a little Oriental flavor into the poem and wow the folks back home in Oconomowoc.
It has left a neat bomb-shaped hole in the deck, just like a panicky Warner Brothers cartoon character passing at high speed through a planar structure such as a wall or ceiling.
In the informal atmosphere of the Physics Department, appointments were viewed with a certain Heisenbergian skepticism, as though being in the right place at the right time would involve breaking a na...
If any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn’t work, please, by all means, kill yourself, because...
If Newton is the finger, Leibniz is the stone, and they press against each other with equal and opposite force, a little bit harder every day. RAVENSCAR:
His whimper dying in his throat. There had been a flash of white moonlight reflecting off pale skin, and when the second one passed, he clapped his hand over his mouth to stifle his cry of terror at w...
Desperate run for help to save the remnant of his failed