Now suppose God chloroforms you and you awaken to find yourself in one of these possible universes.

Here by relaxation schemes we indicate both the relaxing schemes and the relaxed schemes.

However, I have observed that the Hamiltonian philosophy is like avocado: you either like it or you don’t.

A highly stilted but approximate English translation of the above, capturing as many of the nuances of the Ithkuil phrase as possible, would be: ‘…despite presumably being on the verge, contrary to the allegation, of just so happening to want to succeed in maybe ordering a periodic return to the honorable practice of superlative architecture for others to follow by example.’

Quijada turned on some Congolese soukous music, one of many genres of world music of which he considers himself an aficionado, and pulled out a copy of an unpublished science-fiction novel he co-wrote with his identical twin, Paul, called “Beyond Antimony,” about the philosophical implications of quantum theory.

It had only seven syllables: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, and Si. Words could be sung, or performed on a violin. Or, since the language could also be translated into the seven colors of the rainbow, sentences could be woven into a textile as a stream of colors.

“I only eat edibles when I know I’m Ubering,” said Giddy Up, referencing the high-end taxi alternative.

Although the geometric, uniform forest was intended to facilitate management and extraction, it quickly became a powerful aesthetic as well.

We then considered a variant suggestion: Tibbles is the fusion of all the
largest cat-like lumps on his mat. We rejected this for two reasons.

Surely cats are not brought into being by hairs working loose from other
cats; that’s just the wrong kind of change to create a cat.