“The dead guy could be right. It’s the end of the world.” “Well, if it is, you and I are screwed. You ever see that old Twilight Zone episode? We’re the last guy alive with a thousand books to read, except we broke our glasses.”
― The Edge of Sleep
― The Edge of Sleep
“And icebreakers. At some point in human history, someone invented the lowest of lows: the workplace icebreaker.” “What’s a workplace icebreaker?” “It’s a torture device,” Millie grouses. “Like, Two Truths and a Lie. That’s an icebreaker. Or ten things in common. Or a scavenger hunt. Have You Ever? All those bullshit things.”
― The Edge of Sleep
― The Edge of Sleep
“You may wonder how people in medieval Europe could have been reading and writing about Hippocrates, since as an ancient Greek, he was, well, reading and writing in ancient Greek. The answer is that they were reading him in translation, as generations of students had been doing for centuries.”
― The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
― The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
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