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?
Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort,...
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override.
Well, land sakes! Hiro says. Lookee here! He whips his blade sideways, cutting off both of the businessman's forearms, causing the sword to clatter onto the floor.Better fire up the ol' barbeque, Jemi...
Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work.
There are always fuckups, and there is always a goat. Sometimes the goat is you.
The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money.I hadn't known that, I said. I always tend to assume there's...
Testaceous turbinated exanguious animals—
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
Sir, if you ask a Marine if he wants another cigarette, or if he’s ready, the answer is always the same, sir!
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...
Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel.
Plastic is essentially frozen gasoline.
Or a Moonie festival or something.
Now keep in mind that the typical Greek myth goes something like this: innocent shepherd boy is minding his own business, an overflying god spies him and gets a hard-on, swoops down and rapes him sill...
Mathic architects were helpless when it came to walls. Pillars they could do. Arches they were fine with. Vaults, which were just three-dimensional arches, they knew everything about. But ask them to...
Markus’s mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: Is the president nuking people again?
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...
From long experience in places like Afghanistan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognized, in the black jihadist’s movements, a sort of cultural or attitudinal advantage that such people always enjoyed in situ...