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"Old pines and spruces, their branches shaved away in the tumult of the slide, were picked up and hurled like javelins over the cliff: a shower of fragments beat on the body of Bull; and then the main mass of snow washed up over the edge of the cliff in a great mound, and the slide was ended."

"In many ways life is less random than we think.
In your past and mine, there have been times when we have, on some lonely trail, constructed a device aimed into our future. Perhaps nothing ever comes along to trigger it. We live through the safe years.
But, for some people, something moves on the half-forgotten path, and something arches out of the past and explodes in the here and now. "

"They put those little signs in boats...Oh Lord, thy sea is so
at towel. It made
vast and my boat is so small. Trav, you don't have any funny signs around.?"

"And no funny flags to hoist. I almost tell for
one little brass plaque though. It said that marraiges performed by the captain of this vessel are valid only for the duration of the voyage"

"Either something's happened to their cavalry, or our friend here has been bluffing from a busted flush.

"There is hardly a thing in the world so clumsy, so malformed, so apt to speak with a voice of its own at the wrong moment, as a guitar."

The Strange Villa

"Kirk wondered why he'd never noticed before that his father was such an intensely principled man.
Maybe it was because the ongoing conflict between dedicated family man and loyal officer so often manifested itself as ill-temper. It occurred to him that all great conflicts between fathers and sons revolved around the fact that you couldn't truly appreciate an adult until you were one."