Telos

“the days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians. Nor, though it is not usually considered a milestone in American history, should we forget Joseph F. Glidden's 1874 invention of barbed wire, which, more than the rifle or the plow, transformed Buffalo Bill's Great Plains by insuring the survival of thousands of family farms, and making possible the”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“Fire She gasped. The sensations were sudden. The noise and the water. She had her mouth open and she choked. The tang and sting of salt water. She tried to touch her feet on the bottom of the pool but she was out of her depth so she quickly”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“returns, drinks in hand, the first things she sees are the letters, flashing in bright red on the screen. ADI. “I didn’t know how to spell your name,” he says. And it’s wrong, but it doesn’t”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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― Sean M. Burke, Perl & LWP: Fetching Web Pages, Parsing HTML, Writing Spiders & More