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Giselle
Haha simile
And of course she had the same ironclad excuse for risky behavior all of us of a certain age shared: the near-certainty of our own mass extinction.
Haha simile
There’s something on the other side of the sky, and it’s not friendly.
The sun was aging fast, and as it aged it burned its fuel faster. Its luminosity increased ten percent for every billion years.
“They’re hiring a physician for the in-house clinic at Perihelion.”
But when we talked I had formed the impression that Jason wanted me not just as a house doctor but as his personal physician.
Tyler Dupree, borderline autistic.
Haha
He might actually help preserve the human race.”
“A geek ambition if I ever heard one.
Haha
the dissolution of the New Kingdom movement had stranded them.
Haha personification simile
Haha
(Road robbery on the interstates was up by double digits.)
Chilling
The Clayton administration
Haha
Buster Keaton
“I don’t know why young people want to have children at all these days.
They say the best thing you can do for a child is to spare it the suffering we’re all in store for.” “I’m not sure anybody knows what we’re in store for.”
the point of no return and all…” “Which we’ve passed.
Question
Hectorian, a Preterist (Full or Partial), a Kingdom Reconstructionist—never just “New Kingdom.”
the millenarian focus of the movement had lent it disproportional weight in the religious anxiety surrounding the Spin.
mainstream churches had been compelled to address the question of the apocalypse.
Haha - still
KJV
Context:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+21&version=KJV
A snare, not a deliverance.
The car I rented at Orlando the next morning had two bullet holes in it,
Haha wow societal decay
The Perihelion campus—
The Perihelion Foundation
E.D. ruled its steering committee, and Jason had taken effective control of program development.
Simile
at least one crime scene:
Societal decay
eyes glittering with a blank, generic suspicion.
Simile
All very interesting, all very bewildering.
Why outgoing? Question.
Jason claimed to be anticipating a time when medical care might be hard to come by in the world outside the gates.
Molly Seagram,
Get someone else to manage.
Gravol
their crumbling HMOs
Societal decay
Suddenly I was running a fully functional family practice, and most of my patients were people who had looked deeply into the reality of the Spin and confronted it with courage and resolve.
Before long I began to consider myself one of them, part of the work of extending human influence into the raging torrent of extraterrestrial time.
Hard science follows.
modernized Atlases and Deltas roaring into the sky from a forest of newly constructed launch platforms;
Hard science
enchanted bottles filled with more time than they could possibly contain.
the ion drive and reaction mass,
