206 Coyote Road
He gave a sour laugh.”You stole them.”
"Nobody else was using them."
Failed intubation and difficult ventilation.
'So I quietly prepare to die in the next year or so'.
"In the fourth House Tristitia consumeth and destroyeth fields, possessions and inheritances; causeth a Father to be old and of long life, and a very covetous hoorder up of money.”
"Let’s not"
"What are you doing, someone will see us, it’s not a nude beach, it’s freezing!"
"The door to the court was locked and the claimants had to wait on soft chairs in the corridor, facing one another, watching for their adversaries to come and sit next to them."
"What?"
"It’s all such a nonsense."
"To Hornblower it was a satisfactory occupation, the more satisfactory as it became obvious he was acquiring the necessary knack."
"A compact Hausdorff space." (My boyfriend’s topology textbook)
The Guardroom, I was told was on the other side of the Presence Chamber.
"Herpesvirus-induced feline urolithiasis"
Fuck
"Let us in, let us take the weight of these griffons from you."
um
o…kay…
"Peter, who was sitting in the pew across from Cal and August’s, shifted his body so that his legs blocked the aisle."
uh ok but i love doing these anyway because books
Nearest book is a two-way tie and they’re both pretty good:
"No, when the Old Man raises the stakes and says ’ ‘Tis said, they eat each other,’ the play’s chief witness, Ross, affirms it — ‘They did so’ — and reiterates that he was an eyewitness, not just to the stallions going wild, ‘contending ‘gainst obedience,’ but to the astonishing ‘fact’ that the horses did ‘eat each other.’ ”
"Initially she thinks they’re just abstract art, a collection designed around a single theme (amoebic or microcellular life, she thinks), but she cannot help but feel that the sculptor was not sculpting from sheer inspiration: there is a familiarity and intelligence to the sculptures, as if the artist worked with subjects, which is bizarre, as Mona cannot imagine any organism with so many unnecessary tails or fins."
"A word of caution about local orientation is in order at this point."
"You could also choose to assign the file handle to a class or instance variable."
"Chimps have other abilities essential to culture."
"Since we cannot reliably predict the stability of social structures for ordinary human beings (about which we have much data), it is tempting to infer that we have little hope of precision-engineering stable social structures for cognitively enhanced human-like agents (about which we have no data), and that we have still less hope of doing so for advanced artificial agents (which are not even similar to agents we have data about)."
"With a hard link, the two filenames are identical in every way."
Filtering to works of fiction:
“Mr. Davenport, I’ll have to ask you to remove all valuables before we handcuff you.”
