“You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds.
And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
“More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
“Apply logic in places where it wasn’t intended to exist.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
“Not long ago I was invited to a librarians’ event by a lady who cheerfully told me, “We like to think of ourselves as ‘information providers.’” I was appalled by this want of ambition; I made my excuses and didn’t go. After all, if you have a choice, why not call yourselves “Shining Acolytes of the Sacred Flame of Literacy in a Dark and Encroaching Universe”? I admit this is hard to put on a button, so why not abbreviate it to “librarians”?”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
“I'm just capable of entertaining the fantastic idea that, in certain circumstances, Homo sapiens might actually be capable of thinking. It must be worth a go, since we've tried everything else.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
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