It is heavy enough to stun a muskellunge.
It is easy to be eyes and ears. It is harder to be fists and feet.
Is this part of your church thing? he asks. Juanita has been using herexcess money to start her own branch of the Catholic church -- she considersherself a missionary to the intelligent atheists of th...
Indeed the Encyclopedia Qwghlmiana features a lengthy article about the local system of runes. The author of this article has such a chip on his shoulder that the thing is almost physically painful to...
In the parking lot of a Safeway on Oahu, he says. And he's telling the truth;in the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, analcopulations.I'm kind of busy now, Whitey --...
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 home-own. But if you went to the next t...
In many parts of the world, you will find people of thesame ethnic group, living a few miles apart in similar valleys under similarconditions, speaking languages that have absolutely nothing in common...
If you make certain assumptions about the force of gravity, and how the weight of an object diminishes as it gets farther away, it’s not improbable at all, Isaac said. It just happens. You would keep...
If it weren’t for the obvious drawbacks, I would recommend that everyone go crazy at least once in their lifetime, El said. It’s the most fascinating thing I’ve ever done. Going about it mindfully req...
Ideology is a virus.
I'll buy it right now, Jack, said an English voice, somehow familiar, if you stop being such a fucking tosser, that is.
I was in Mexico a couple of weeks ago, Avi says. They have plastic forests there! What does that mean? Downwind of the city, the trees sort of comb the plastic shopping bags out of the air. They get t...
I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to ta...
I heard an older, softer male voice say. I knew that voice had a name attached to it—Yoda? No, Yoda was from Star Wars. Star Wars was on my mind because of R2-D2.
I have devoted much effort, during the last decade or so, to the systematic encouragement of subversiveness.
I guessed that by pretending to be the leader I could make a few things go my way, at least for a little while, until they figured out I was faking it.
I found out that the idea of the Internet as a highly distributed, redundant global communications system is a myth,’’ he discovered. Virtually all communications between countries take place through...
I don’t hold it against you that you turned out Irish, either. I wasn’t there to make Englishmen of you, and so it’s Irish you are, by default.
I don’t even know how to describe it. ‘Ragtag’ makes it sound like more than it is.
I don't get this, Hiro says. What is Snow Crash?It's a drug, asshole, the guy says. What do you think?