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They are trying to decide whether to have a baby right away, i.e. as soon as possible, or later, i.e. in a year or two. They have been exploring this question for weeks and they flatter themselves by imagining that they have approached it “rationally,” as if that were a virtue and as if the matter of hauling a new soul out of the cosmic ether were susceptible to reason in the first place.
It’s some kind of fast-food Bible, with a menu at the beginning from which you select items that will gratify your particular spiritual craving: “Help in Time of Need,” “Guidance in Time of Decision,” “Courage in Time of Fear,” “Warning in Time of Indifference.”
An athlete recently accused of making false statements is making another false statement, specifically that none of his previous statements have been false. Next up is a clip of the president making false statements of his own,
Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway have traveled to a distant galaxy only to discover Matt Damon. Unfortunately, Matt Damon has become demented in his cosmic isolation and he tries to kill them, a gambit that only results in his own death. After this, Matthew McConaughey performs the ultimate sacrifice, tricking Anne Hathaway into traveling home to safety while he himself descends into a black hole with his robot friend in order to gather the crucial data about gravity. What he and the robot could never have anticipated is that the black hole contains a fifth-dimensional machine sent from
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“I could fake a restaurant review from the road if I had to,” he says. “ ‘This brassy bighearted nightspot offers gastro-fare with a postpunk Viet-Hungarian twist.’ ” “Try the word salad.”
Acid sunlight. Chemical afternoon.
The vivid, florid, turgid sky. The drenching thunder rolling by.
how do the phones know so much about traffic?
“Another day,” James Schuyler writes, “another dolor.”
“I went to medical school when I retired from tennis. I understood I’d never be a top player. But I never did my residency because I was oppressed by the repetition. And anyway, why stick yourself for life with a young man’s idea of his future?
This tiny human comes, and it doesn’t speak English, and you have to get up in the night and shake it until it goes back to sleep, and the whole thing is the loveliest thing in the world. It’s the very acme of human happiness.”
