His conclusion was that “hammering is anything but what it appears to be”; such a statement, if not open to explicit refutation, seems unnecessary and unenlightening.

Bassett’s posthumous Recollections contains the interesting suggestion that Kraus did not exist at all, the name being one of the pseudonyms adopted by the egregious du Garbandier to further his “campaign of calumny.”

I tried saying nothing for a whole day the other day. It’s hard. But it started to feel like melted chocolate was in my mouth the whole day.

Brian Tomasik, the American writer of the website Essays on Reducing Suffering, told me that artists who abandon their craft to help others should take solace in the theory that all possible artwork already exists somewhere in the quantum multiverse.

“Trump is offering an unusual combination of extreme language, moderate policy and rudeness, and so far it’s connecting with Republican voters,” Barro writes.

Over the years I’ve known many people with nicknames, including Lucky, Big O, Haywire, Turtle Eggs, Hercules, two guys named Hollywood, and three guys called Booger.

The terror of onanism is that bodiless demons are able to make bodies for themselves from the spilled seed.

I don’t know what she thinks the odds actually are, but I would give above an 80% chance of chicken consciousness and above, say, 85% for pig consciousness (compared against maybe 95% that you’re conscious).

Put another way, a theory cannot be 99.99804% conceptually coherent.