The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves.
Those of us who are going to live,” Dinah Said, “have to start living by our own lights.
Time, tide, and comets waited for no man.
A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest.
His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.
He was already thinking about the videos he was going to make to teach his baby about calculus when he climaxed.
There is one universe, by the definition of universe. It is not the cosmos we see through our eyes and our telescopes – that is but a single Narrative, a thread winding through a Hemn space shared by many other Narratives besides ours. Each Narrative looks like a cosmos alone, to any consciousness that partakes of it. The Geometers came from other Narratives – until they came here, and joined ours.
If it’s wearing red, yellow, or both, it’s a lama,” he said. “Bow to it.” “Isn’t that a camel from South America?
Julia Bliss Flaherty, as Ivy now realized, was of the same stripe. Pinned down and obliged to justify herself, she would explain her actions in terms of some altruistic plan. And she might even believe it. But it wasn’t that at all. She was like Ivy’s grandmother. If you paid fealty to her, she would favor you, and your reputation and power would grow among all the others who did likewise.
For members of the general public might not care about Wolf-Rayet stars in the Quintuplet Cluster, but they definitely saw why having hot rocks fall on one’s head was a good thing to avoid.
All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.
Reality is what we make it. Or what is made for us by the companies we keep. It is our clay from which we fashion ourselves.
The little boy in him was crestfallen that he wasn’t going on the adventure. Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable.
We had these throwbacks who would do stuff like printing their emails out on paper to read them, or asking you for your goddamn fax number two decades after you had thrown away your fax machine.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything.
When you just wing it, you are aware of the risk and the uncertainty, and inclined to be more cautious. When you have a high-tech tool giving you an illusion of omniscience, I am concerned that it will lead to greater risk-taking. LYONS:.
Maybe that’s what a leader is, Dinah. The one person who can’t – who shouldn’t – share her problems with anyone else.
Magical?” “Non.” “Magnificent?” “Don’t be absurd.” “Less bleak than anything else we have seen?” “Now truly you are speaking French,” the ambassador said approvingly.
At the entrance of this street, a Janissary was pinned to a wooden door by an eight-foot-long spear, which Jack looked on as proving that Yevgeny had passed by there recently.
He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world.