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His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

Paul Lippman's American Typewriters: A Collector's Encyclopedia.

Oddly enough, there's no name in the DSM for the compulsion to diagnose people.

Yet this rumble is cartoon thunder.

All the while moving the idea of home three more modulations deeper into unspinning space

The purpose of science was to revive and cultivate a perpetual state of wonder. For nothing deserved wonder so much as our capacity to feel it.

Down one branch, she lifts the glass to her lips, toasts the room—To Tachigali versicolor—and drinks.

the greatest mercy fiction gives: proof that the worst the two of them have done to each other is just another tale worth reading together, at the end of the day.

Dorothy doesn't mind skipping the author's philosophies to get to those moments when one character, often the most surprising, reaches down inside herself and is better than her nature allows.

He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America.

It surprises Adam, the proximity of coziness to terror.

His face clouds over with incomprehension. You would know. You'd know, if you saw a pike.

Beliefs should not be considered delusional if they are in keeping with societal norms.

His personality is being wiped away by brain damage. This is called depersonalization, in which the liveliness and details of character seem to vanish.

Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.

Einstein had judged it too large and moved into a small secretarial annex nearby.

Trinity would be the largest physics experiment ever attempted up to that time.

By 1933, with a departmental budget above $2,000 a year, ten times the budget of most Italian physics departments

sufficiently to produce worldwide agricultural collapse.

More than any other development, Chadwick's neutron made practical the detailed examination of the nucleus.

Early in 1945 Oak Ridge began shipping bomb-grade U235 to Los Alamos.

Chamberlain moved again to concession. "Appeasement" was at that time a popular and not a pejorative word.

I work to support my habit of writing.