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Here, though, with my power not constrained but gone, my Owner was as comfortable as when you sit naked in an empty house, or sing in the bathroom, so I tasted at last that easy affection which only dolls and dildos had enjoyed before.
Caught between two lies I give you mine, which has more truth immixed.
Our modern moths have bounced so many times off lightbulbs, they aren’t prepared for torches, and forget that wings can burn.
Carlyle is a thousand times stronger than I, fights back where I surrendered, but it is still millennia she battles, the learned detritus of millennia, deep inside her.
The constellations of Utopians have, to my knowledge, no rank nor hierarchy, but if, like stars, they may be said to have magnitudes of brightness, then surely Mushi Mojave is one of those Crowns of Heaven that pierce even city smog.
Ockham does not vote; Ockham decides.
I have only once had a conversation with each twin when I was certain which it was, so that is all I know: Kat, spiritualist double-think; Robin, bikes.
It was irresponsible of me, I know, to let the world spin on without watching. I who owe you seventeen lifetimes of service have no excuse. Eighteen lifetimes, Mycroft, don’t forget; thy victims’ and thine own.
We have to gamble on this one, Saladin. We have to trust the Driver.”
“I’m not a dentist and I don’t like pulling teeth.
Even in such crisis His Grace does not forget the title due an Emperor’s Son.
Has it not occurred to you that, thanks to modern science, there are ways a sperm and egg can meet other than the customary dick up vagina?”
no finite thing can substitute for lost infinity.”
But, vast as Man’s prosthetic powers are, a finite thing, however grand, is nothing against a lost infinity.”
World Peace does not breed heroes.”
The injury did not slow Dominic, or speed him, his rage already the maximum flesh can conjure.
Panic followed, cities not yet strangling but feeling the threat of strangulation, as when the heart has just failed and the body cramps by instinct knowing it will soon starve.
However many millions of generations may be born upon this Earth, I think life’s miracle will still inspire awe enough to freeze us, as a schoolchild freezes, afraid the dream will end when he dares stamp his first footprint on the lunar dust.
See victory in her smile.
The others waited for MASON’s next move, all silent except for Spain, who hiccupped with soft sobs, neither joy nor sadness, but commingling passions too multiform to have a name.
As if the trowel that slops mortar on the stones can understand the exalted aim of the cathedral.
Oh, miraculous chameleon, Science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?
They wheeled him back to us now, lying on a gurney, not because of weakness, but in deference to the hospital habit of circumscribing patients in the geometric borders of a bed.
