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“It was like a race we’d tried to run until we discovered that there was no finish line.”
― J. William Lewis, The Essence of Nathan Biddle

“That is probably some kind of moron, maybe oxy or maybe just me.”
― J. William Lewis, The Essence of Nathan Biddle

“The situation was a prime example of the quantum yearning axiom. The Biddle-Lichtman theory of quantum yearning holds that the desirability of a thing is inversely proportional to its availability.”
― J. William Lewis, The Essence of Nathan Biddle

“I still don’t know whether Newt was serious, but the theory, which Newt called the Third Law of Hedonics (he never revealed the first and second laws), is that for every pleasure there is an equal and opposite pain. Conversely, according to the theory, for every pain there is an equal and opposite pleasure. Thus, pain and pleasure always balance out, so that a person can take heart in travail because he’s building up an account of pleasure due, which means that, at the appropriate time, he will become the beneficiary of a compensating joy.”
― J. William Lewis, The Essence of Nathan Biddle