Let’s put it this way.  I lived with Final Fantasy III intimately for about eight weeks straight, to the point at which I was dreaming about it, thinking about it on the bus, when picking up light bulbs at the market, or walking the dog.

Agape, Gaf the Horse in Tears, all foliage save for his face, one of Amelia’s swiss rolls filling the twigs at the end of his left bough, rustled with enthusiasm.

All the participants in their experiment listed six instances of assertive (or nonassertive) behavior, while maintaining a specified facial expression.

Norman [Mailer] knew everybody in the place and he asked for a kind of vodka punch. He always drank horrible drinks: at one point, back at his house, he asked me to make him a rum and grapefruit and another time he asked for a red wine and orange juice.

Four different sentient species populate Twinsun; Quetchs are aesthetically similar to humans except that they all possess ponytails, Spheros are short spherical creatures, Grobos resemble anthropomorphic elephants, and Rabbibunnies are tall, thin humanoid rabbits.

Until the tragic Holy Rebellion of “06”,
the respected JEDI BENDU OF ASHLA
were the most powerful warriors
in the Universe.
For a hundred thousand years,
generations of Jedi Bendu knights
learned the ways of the mysterious
FORCE OF OTHERS, and acted as the
guardians of peace and justice
in the REPUBLIC. Now these legendary
warriors are all but extinct.
One by one they have been hunted down
and destroyed by a ferocious
rival sect of mercenary warriors:
THE BLACK KNIGHTS OF THE SITH.

There are compensations, of course. Occult systems always look impressively difficult from the outside: that Elvish script, those runes. This is one reason people find them so attractive. Something different, some special form of knowledge, just for me. But the system turns out to be tremendously easy to get to grips with. Every bit joins up with every other bit, which is of course not surprising, given that these are artificial creations, and this is exactly what they were designed to do. This is why occult systems appeal to vulnerable people. You can feel secure inside them, no matter what is going on in the nasty world outside. The merest weakling can be master of this cosy little universe. Even a silly furry little hobbit can see his dreams come true.

(Jenny Turner, Reasons For Liking Tolkien)

simplest terms

Put in the simplest terms the “philosophy of cusp forms” says that for each Γ-conjugacy classes of Q-rational parabolic subgroups one should construct automorphic functions (from objects from spaces of lower dimensions) whose constant terms are zero for other conjugacy classes and the constant terms for [an] element of the given class give all constant terms for this parabolic subgroup.

At age 8, he once said, his dream was to become “a zero-mass, spin one-half neutrino.”

According to Bernstein, ‘Berlioz tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral.’