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The Italians greeted us with cries of Bambino! Bambino! Buon giorno bambino! and we responded by shrieking Bambino! Bambino! Il Duce morte! Finito il Duce! Sometimes we shouted Viva Pinocchio! and from beyond the fences and the barriers of
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“The squire located a few common fauna -— a frog, a newt, and an amphisbaena. One of those animals may sound unfamiliar, so if you’ve never seen a frog, it’s like a goat, but with the head of a lizard and the body of a grasshopper. The newt was a cauldron-ready cooking newt, and the amphisbaena was pretty much your run-of-the-mill amphisbaena.”
― Augie and the Green Knight
― Augie and the Green Knight
“The Catholic alpha male abstains from sexual intercourse and childcare even though there is no genetic or ecological reason for him to do so.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Augie. You're a good girl," said Dad. This was more hope than truth. "You're nine and a half."
"NINE," she corrected. She hated how adults never rounded down to the nearest integer when talking to children.”
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"NINE," she corrected. She hated how adults never rounded down to the nearest integer when talking to children.”
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“A typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to only one type of sweet food – ripe fruit. If a Stone Age woman came across a tree groaning with figs, the most sensible thing to do was to eat as many of them as she could on the spot, before the local baboon band picked the tree bare. The instinct to gorge on high-calorie food was hard-wired into our genes. Today we may be living in high-rise apartments with over-stuffed refrigerators, but our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah. That’s what makes some of us spoon down an entire tub of Ben & Jerry’s when we find one in the freezer and wash it down with a jumbo Coke.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“We’re really just unwitting pawns playing out a sinister predetermined plan laid out by the toaster.”
― Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics
― Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics
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