Could it be, then, that Daniel’s true cowardice lay in that he could not stand for people to think poorly of him?
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion
Imagined Image.
Nucleurope.
Schon jetzt kommen die ersten Lkw mit Fässern voll mit grünem, nachhaltigem Atommüll aus allen Mitgliedsstaaten am Hauptsitz der EU-Kommission in Brüssel an, wo sie entladen werden. Mehrere tausend sollen folgen.
Multibibliomensional.
The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion
Symmotion.
Oh, well (she thought), if the world were populated solely by persons who loved and desired each other symmetrically, it might be happier, but not so interesting.
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion
Gift-ig.
Paying for gifts
...does not work.
You don't say to someone, "here's $100, maybe this time get me a gift worth $100 more than you'd regularly spend." It's kind of insulting. It still probably won't get you exactly the thing you wanted. Actually, the other person might just pocket the $100 and run off with it.