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“Only the unsubduable can be loved.”

"Stupid because this duty was yet another crime. Stupid because white can’t also be black, duty and crime cannot be one and the same. Otherwise there is no black or white at all, and color is wholly dependent on the foundational logical premise."

Handheld calculator in the 1920s, nice

In front of me, on the half-breadth plan, in the sketch, I saw my hand holding the calculator, the logarithmic dial pointing to 15.

"Fifteen tons [of rocket fuel]. But it’d be better to take... yes: let’s do 100..." I said that because I knew that tomorrow...

Watching this scene from outside of myself, I noticed the hand holding the calculator had started to tremble

"He could see us. I pictured what He saw: the concentric circles of the tribunes dappled in little blue dots, like the rings of a spiderweb speckled in microscopic suns (our gleaming badges). The wise, white Spider would now alight in the center, clad in the white robes of the Benefactor, having wisely bound us all hand and foot in His beneficent snares of happiness."