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I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada".

Suddenly a sound like a water-pipe with air in it came from Mrs Gunn and Carolus realized that she was giggling.

You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried to in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

I feel strongly that in the continual striving for the actualization of every living thing lies our only hope. This is the unique challenge of Personhood and the sole purpose of this book.

Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.

He began the interview by asking what my hobbies were. "Incunabula and intercourse, sir." It slipped out and wasn't even accurate; I'd had little experience of one and couldn't afford the other.

FOLK SAYING: "Poverty is no disgrace—which is the only good thing you can say about it.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

carving knife, and as she dissected the

there's some Canadian dudes who're really interested

The sex... it was age appropriately fantastic.

And now the fear and fascination with this peripatetic shooting gallery had galvanized the country.

with all these serial killer Waynes, anyway? Wayne Williams. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Patrick Wayne Hearney, who dismembered thirty-two human beings on the West Coast.

understood why Roland had been so agreeable to Brennan's idea of a raid.

I was actually thinking about writing, maybe, Owen said. About Charm? Kiel asked, raising an eyebrow. No? Owen said, probably a bit too fast too be believable. I have some other ideas.

What happens this time, a hospital visit? Whoah! said Cyrus. See, now you must be reading my mind, because that's exactly why!

The heart is in darkness, unknowing, like those animals in mines that have never seen the day. It has no loyalties, no hopes; it has its task.

Her reading left Keller increasingly disappointed by the way that biographers had deified Shakespeare

Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects?

Albany had declared that "All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings" (24.297–99).

Schmucker draws a sharp distinction between Shakespeare the man and Shakespeare the poet, in what would soon be a favourite gambit of those who doubted his authorship:

Tough guys didn't carry. 22s. Kids did. He felt

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?