Julie Verive
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She was aware that she was anthropomorphizing the threat, giving meaning and reason to what might very well be reasonless destruction. These aliens weren’t people. They weren’t even barbarians.
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“Today, tonight is no time to be asleep— moon viewing!”
― Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
― Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular.”
― Babel
― Babel
“What an entirely haunted time to be alive,”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“Defeating the Nazis was in the same category as changing a flat tire: an untidy business that men were expected to know how to do. And not just the men of yore, the supermen of her generation; Randy was expected to know about these things too. If the Axis reconstituted itself tomorrow, Grandma would expect Randy to be suited up behind the controls of a supersonic fighter plane the day after that.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
“never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
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