“We must have the same sources,” Roger said agreeably. “How much do you pay them?” “I say things to them in return. It is called having conversations, and for some it is payment enough.”
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Contradersation.
Castling.
[...] at Versailles, no one of importance speaks quickly and spontaneously, every utterance is planned like a move in a chess game.
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Edurantion.
I tried to cover my embarrassment by ranting to the children about Descartes and Euclid.
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Dare to laugh.
Eliza laughed out loud, lustily, drawing glares from women who never laughed that way, or at all.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Windycle.
Luxury problem of the week: so much wind that the bike might fly away.