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‘I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to bully. One has an ancestral idea that women must be treated like imbeciles in a crisis. Centuries of the “women-and-children-first” idea, I suppose. Poor devils!’ ‘Who—the women?’ ‘Yes. No wonder they sometimes
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“Each cow was searching for her perfect partner, and despite years of research, no scientist has ever been able to discover the criteria that females use when choosing mates. Maybe it’s because each cow chose, for herself alone, the one bull that would most displease her mother.”
― Fox and I
― Fox and I
“No,” she said. “You’re a grown man. You can pick your own hell, same as anyone.”
― The Faith of Beasts
― The Faith of Beasts
“We’re at the start of something here. We can’t let it slide. If it’s okay now, it’s okay forever. You plug a leak when it’s small, or you suffer when it’s big.”
― Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection
― Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection
“In other words, foxes could identify the differences between zzz, mmm, shhh, and so on. If Belyaev was correct, Fox heard words but did not understand them. Like me at the opera.”
― Fox and I
― Fox and I
“Over nineteenth-century telegraph wires OK would have been sent in the original Morse code, also known as American Morse or Railroad Morse, in the pattern dot-gap-dot dash-dot-dash, rather than dash-dash-dash dash-dot-dash of today’s International Morse Code. The O was signaled by two dots with a long intracharacter gap to distinguish it from I, which used two dots with a short intracharacter gap.”
― OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
― OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
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