And so from then onwards, Daniel understood that the point of this grueling sundial project was not merely to plot the curve but to understand why each curve was shaped as it was. To put it another wa...
There's a little rack along the front of the counter bearing religious tracts, free for the taking, donation requested. Several slots on the rack are occupied by the Reverend Wayne's famous bestseller...
She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not to understand her. That's what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand . She knows impossible. She just wants you to understand . Everything else...
As to Constantinople. That jewel in the crown of the Byzantine Empire. That continent-straddling stronghold of the Eastern Orthodox Church. That famously inviolable walled city ruled by generations of...
Ever think of introducing yourself? Y.T. says.Nah, he says, people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?
Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.
There is an informational entity known as the metavirus, which causesinformation systems to infect themselves with customized viruses. This may bejust a basic principle of nature, like Darwinian selec...
Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installa...
It would make things much simpler for a man like him if he knew she were unavailable.
The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enormous...
The cosmos seems oblivious to time. It only matters to us. Consciousness is time-constituting. We build time up out of instantaneous impressions that flow in through our sensory organs at each moment....
The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.
Semper FidelisDawn star flares on disk of nightI fall, sun rises
Hackworth took a bite of his sandwich, correctly anticipating that the meat would be gristly and that he would have plenty of time to think about his situation while his molars subdued it. He did have...
But a trick of the voice and the general body language was enough that I had a visceral desire to simply avoid him.
That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking, what's your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?
You’ve probably heard the expression that the Industry feeds off of biomass, like a whale straining krill from the ocean.
Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to c...
Right, by tomorrow morning everyone will have congregated in Le Havre and you can all pile in the car and come back out here together, said Tristan in a rapid monotone, as if needing to rationalize be...
Gold is the corpse of value...