The suspicion that certain ancient authorities possessed good knowledge of the real shape of the Atlantic and its islands, and of the lands on both sides of it, must also arise from any objective read...
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the...
The sea does not belong to tyrants. - Captain Nemo
The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?
The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.
The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.
The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.
The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have traversed interminable leagues of frozen silence, filling them with the same cold roar and sharpenin...
The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town...
Tell me when you want to pick it up again.Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight.I'll do that. Lunch?
Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me how s...
Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin Laden 'hopes to bring a judgmental...
Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak´s flute. It came from the direction of a small dark object under the hedge...
Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you...... What is it? [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible.Yeah, agre...
Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
So she steeled herself. I have never told anyone this story. No one in the world knows it. But it's mine, she said, blinking past the burning in her eyes, and it's time for me to tell it.Rowan leaned...
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had s...
She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. How can you be so calm? He got to his feet, unfolding with an easy grace. He held out a hand, his dark eyes focused solemnly on hers. Come w...
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