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Who needs intimacy?
They were like the most Buddhist-y Buddhists imaginable—which made their hunger for the Christian religion all the more miraculous.
Haha reversal
Why shouldn’t it be easy? When the window of the soul was clear, not smeared and tarnished with the accumulated muck of deviousness and egomania and self-loathing, there was nothing to stop the light from shining straight in.
Simile haha
the Oasan side of his brain.
His polite requests for a spire had been deflected (“we do all other thing, pleaSe, before”); he sensed that they would deflect it forever.
Luke’s “two men in dazzling raiment” story, Matthew’s angel descending from Heaven with earthquake accompaniment, Mark’s lone young man sitting on a rock, or John’s pair of angels inside the tomb.
Bible
So imagine what sheets of human flesh must look like to them!
Peter was almost certain that no Christian painter had ever attempted it before.
Bible question
an ordinary man in an ordinary room voices his scepticism about what a bunch of other ordinary men have just told him.
Haha
Partly because he doesn’t bother even to try to describe them fo her, to input into the computer when he returns to base. Selfish prick.
Varieties of manna
slumped to the earth, and would swiftly begin to rot if they were not plucked out.
Manna
Haha
Simile haha
Haha
Haha
the Chinese grabbed the oilfields in Iraq, Iran and Kazakstan (sp?).
upsurge in piracy,
Thailand until the mili...
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Yes, lots of it, why not tell her?
“Peter, listen to me,” said Grainger, enunciating each word with earnest emphasis. “This happens. This happens to all of us.” “What do you mean?” “You’re here. She’s there. It’s natural.” “Natural?” “The rift,” she said. “It grows and grows, and finally … there’s too much of it to cross.
dishdasha
Tuska
It all seemed a grossly excessive amount of bustle and chatter to Peter, but he knew the problem was his perception,
Iris Berns.
Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn’t people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?
“They work outside almost every day,” he said. “Yeah?” “Yes.” “Doing what?” “Growing and harvesting food for us.”
Symptom of mental illness
Prick. Wimp. Isn’t there an obligation to interpret the natives to the visitors?
Stanko!
she was trying to prevent him from drifting away from the bosom of their community, to stop him going native.
Prick - why fight with mere ignorance?
As well he should be.
Just remind him that human reactions and assumptions are not universal, and certainly not a *standard* among sentient races.
Should have brought some.
He was failing his wife, he was failing his wife. He had promised he would write every day.
volcanic eruption has destroyed one of the most densely populated cities in Guatemala,
THERE IS NO RESCUE EFFORT.
the bombing of Lahore Airport
And for once, it’s not just the underdogs that suffer while the elites carry on as usual.
Some of the wealthiest people in America were murdered last week, dragged out of their homes and beaten to death.
during a power blackout in Seattle that la...
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All the systems that keep the city functioning g...
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Within 48 hours there was widespread looting and then people started killing each other.
And there was more. And, in the backlog of previous messages, more still.
Haha
Bea’s unrequited cravings for toffee cheesecake and for intimacy with her man.
