There was no helping it. To a child, nothing seemed more stupid in adults than their inability to come to grips with the fact that people grew.
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion
There was no helping it. To a child, nothing seemed more stupid in adults than their inability to come to grips with the fact that people grew.
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion
Bob had not noticed the skeleton before, and its sudden inclusion in the conversation made him uneasy. “I beg your pardon, sir, ‘twas disgraceful—” “Oh, stop!” Eliza hissed, “he is a Philosopher, he cares not.” “Descartes used to come up here when I was a young man, and sit at that very table, and drink too much and discourse of the Mind-Body Problem,” Huygens mused. “Problem? What’s the problem? I don’t see any problem,” Bob muttered parenthetically, until Eliza crowded back against him and planted a heel on his instep. “So Eliza’s attempt to clarify your mental processes by purging you of imbalancing humours could not have been carried out in a more appropriate location,” Huygens continued.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
And you can move my body
but please keep my mind asleep
deadmau5 ft. Colleen D'Agostino: Seeya
The first sunburn of the year always comes as a surprise.
The primary reason that we go is to have fun.