Magical? Non. Magnificent? Don't be absurd. Less bleak than anything else we have seen? Now truly you are speaking French, the ambassador said approvingly.
I’m ready to commit to her at any time. But for god’s sake, I’m not even sure she’s heterosexual. It’d be madness to put a lesbian in charge of my ejaculatory functions.
I was wondering when I was going to end up like this.
I had to ride slow because I was taking my guerrilla route, the one I follow when I assume that everyone in a car is out to get me. My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with...
He's rich, Jack muttered to Eliza, or connected with rich persons.Yes—the clothes, the coins ...All fakeable.How do you know him to be rich, then?In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of pr...
He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.
And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way, Leibniz said. Each painter can view the city from only one standpoint at a time, so he will move about the place...
You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?
You are hereby warned that any movement on your part not explicitly endorsed by verbal authorization on my part may pose a direct physical risk to you, as well as consequential psychological and possi...
What of the chain? Its position, defined by C, begins at 0 and reaches 1 when its next link moves forward to the fatal position, then 2 and so on. The chain must move in synch with the teeth on the sp...
Through the uneven morning mist, she could make out the ruin of the monastery on the northern verge. The broken, roofless walls of outbuildings stretched south of the main ruins in a broken curve. Bir...
This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been chang...
This sir, yes sir business, which would probably sound like horseshit to any civilian in his right mind, makes sense to Shaftoe and to the officers in a deep and important way. Like a lot of others, S...
The Fourth Crusade was an epic clusterfuck a comic-opera misadventure a tragic saga with farcical elements.
She heaved two or three times, as if sobbing, and suddenly sneezed -- not a polite 'atchoo' but a thermonuclear explosion so powerful that she staggered in place, nearly losing her balance, and some l...
Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all th...
It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can opener...
In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.
He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge woul...
How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?