Correction’s set is a garret in the middle of an Austrian forest, described by the narrator as the “thought dungeon” in which the main character, Roithamer, will pursue his project of constructing an extraordinary habitation, the Cone, as a present for his beloved sister.
All the latest signed comments are Odd Tablet ones. The full signature is “Old Man Odd Tablet” or “Old Odd Tablet.” Sometimes he refers to himself as “The Old Crock” or “Old Useless.”
Having penetrated the world of mathematics, we acquire freedom (provided we never snip the thread) to draw upon our mathematical imaginations to construct “representations of configuration” of ascending complexity.
Notice that one cannot use planks and a pair of dividers to construct physical scaffolding in hyperspace!
This society is no feminist fantasy of the future. It is the Republic of Armenia.
Likewise, the very point of the slur “birdbrain” is to indicate that the thinking skills of the person in receipt of the insult are, in some important way worth commenting on, inadequate.
But most remarkable of all was the effect of this anogenital licking on the young rats’ brains.
It’s very soothing… and then suddenly you realize that he’s just lulling you so he can smack you over the head with a patented word-couple like “hemorrhoidal isometrics” or “vampiric homonculus.”
Although stated as such in TNG: “Night Terrors”, REM sleep is not the exclusive purview of dreams - it is simply the most common time to dream. 5-10% of people who are woken during non-REM sleep also report dreaming. We can perhaps forgive Crusher being inexact as she was impaired by the effects of the Tyken’s Rift.
Youth goes fast, and yet you are still alive. There will be no coming back.