Look neat when you look for work, I always say – I do declare I won’t hardly open the screen door to give a man a handout if he don’t wear a necktie.
Georges was telling me that he saw nothing wrong with my having asked to stop at a Burger King for a snack in lieu of luncheon – that, in his opinion, the giant burger, properly prepared from top sirloin substitute.
I wished that I were back on the Hunters’ farm, bathed in the warm protectiveness of Mrs. Hunter. I wished that I were in Vicksburg, sharing mutual loneliness with Georges.
Another was a victim in an ‘unexplained crash’ of a private APV and the Confederacy Attorney General has ordered an investigation. But I seem to recall that the Attorney General herself was assassinated.
We’re trying to apply Clarke’s Law.” “I don’t recall it. Maybe it was while I was out with mumps.” “Arthur C. Clarke,” Pop told her. “Great man – too bad he was liquidated in The Purge.
I knew the deeper meaning of “better death than dishonor” – I knew now why Roman matrons said, “With your shield or on it.
Escape speed is not a vector quantity; it is scalar.
I suppose they can afford it. They have a mellow climate from British Canada to the Mexican Kingdom and much of the richest farm land on Earth.
Webb? Wrote a book listing forty-nine possible solutions to Fermi’s Paradox – and demolished them one by one, leaving only the fiftieth solution, namely: we’re alone?” He looked as if he’d chased his lemon with milk. “Webb was an idiot. His analysis presumed that if other life did exist, it could not be more intelligent than him. It was the characteristic flaw of the entire PreCollapse millennium: the assumption of vastly more knowledge than they actually possessed.
They made solemn pronouncements about conditions a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, on the basis of computer models, which they had produced with computers not even bright enough to talk, let alone understand speech. They were unlike all the generations before theirs in several ways, but chiefly in that they had no faintest clue how ignorant they were. Previous ages had usually had a pretty good handle on that.
Everybody is Equal and Everybody has a vote. But you have to draw the line somewhere.
The Scientologists, of course, have had to fight for their rights many times;.
Women are more rugged than men; they have to be.
What do you expect us to do, gospazha? Throw rocks at Warden?” Wyoh smiled. “Yes, we could throw rocks.
It’s a nasty story. I got that much before my informant sobered up. Dr. Ward Smith delivered his wife by Caesarean section – and she died on the table. What he did next shows that he knew the score; with the same scalpel he cut Captain Brant’s throat – then his own. Sorry, hon.” Jill.
I hope you will comply willingly; it will speed the day when I can bow out and life can get back to normal – a new normal, free of the Authority, free of guards, free of troops stationed on us, free of passports and searches and arbitrary arrests.
The first principle in riding a tiger is to hang on tight to its ears.
Won’t discuss bookkeeping this firm used. Since Mike ran everything, was not corrupted by any tinge of honesty.
He even let himself be vaccinated again rather than go back to the I Spy and dig out the piece of paper that showed he had been vaccinated on arrival Earthside a few weeks earlier.
Sharpie darling, you are a floccinaucinihilipilificatrix.