He feels sure that it is really “speaking about the Garden of Eden,” and decides that he must go to what he thinks of as “the very center of the world, the place where matters were actually decided, where things happened, a place such as Rome had been, ancient Rome, where decisions had been made and events set in motion, to find that place and then quit everything.” He decides that this place is New York. There he will publish the manuscript by typing it up and posting it on the Internet. Then, he thinks, his life will come to an end.

The narrative is set in a restless town where a mysterious circus, which exhibits a whale and nothing else, contributes to an apocalyptic atmosphere.

Be wary of individual Trekkies who have constructed sets in the likeness of actual Star Trek sets in their own homes and or places of work; these people are trying to hard to live in a world based on fiction. If these individuals ask you to help finish these constructions, kindly aid them in their endeavors.

You return to his small shack to gather his things before you set off with your new found friend.  His name is Vodalian and he states that he simply loves adventure.

When a person’s phone dies, I become aroused.

My mythical dad is a cretin of habit with narrow, nearly religious interest in eating, sports, and self.

I spent a lot of time at my grandmother’s house, which is in all ways like Miracle Whip.

Personal liberation for me was also incidentally culinary liberation, in which the great central discovery was the glory of garlic.

the world of literature is a silly place

For nearly 500 pages, the narrator shows herself to be a lusty thinker, as analytically avid as she is sexually frank, a style of mind that mixes spoken effects (“I think”) with notes from a higher register (“id est”).“I know it sounds absurd,” Rush said in 1991, “but I wanted to create the most fully realized female character in the English language.” For many, he pulled it off. In a poll by The New York Times Book Review in 2006, a jury of more than a hundred writers, critics and editors said “Mating” was among the best novels of the past quarter-century. Even so, a few outliers didn’t buy “Mating.” […] Among the male writers I spoke to who were not taken with the book, the reason given was that they didn’t believe this could be a woman’s voice.

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i, great literature man, will create the BEST female character ever.  but wait, they say……….. could she be TOO GOOD to be feamle

One of these questions, concerning the energy states that electrons can take on in a particular model for a quasicrystal, had been known informally as the “ten martini” problem because it was so difficult that the late Polish mathematician Mark Kac had promised 10 martinis to anyone who could solve it.