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""You can surprise Annemarie!"
Would I ever. I walked up the hill, where the sunlight seemed to touch everything like it was a hyper kid running all over a toy store--it bounced off the dirty metal lampposts, the shiny brass awning posts, even the sunglasses of a woman walking her dogs with a cup of coffee in one hand. Everything shined [note: author's emphasis in italics]. (139)" — May 19, 2012 01:47pm
""You can surprise Annemarie!"
Would I ever. I walked up the hill, where the sunlight seemed to touch everything like it was a hyper kid running all over a toy store--it bounced off the dirty metal lampposts, the shiny brass awning posts, even the sunglasses of a woman walking her dogs with a cup of coffee in one hand. Everything shined [note: author's emphasis in italics]. (139)" — May 19, 2012 01:47pm
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"called quarks--a whimsical name taken from a passage in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake by the theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who previously had surmised their existence. The experimenters confirmed that quarks themselves come in two varieties, which were named, a bit less creatively, up and down. A proton consists of two up-quarks and a down-quark; a neutron consists of two down-quarks and an up-quark. (7)" — May 08, 2012 01:24pm
"called quarks--a whimsical name taken from a passage in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake by the theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who previously had surmised their existence. The experimenters confirmed that quarks themselves come in two varieties, which were named, a bit less creatively, up and down. A proton consists of two up-quarks and a down-quark; a neutron consists of two down-quarks and an up-quark. (7)" — May 08, 2012 01:24pm
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""And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why--Why do we do this? Why don't we do that?--and often there isn't a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn't true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush."" — Apr 16, 2012 03:06pm
""And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why--Why do we do this? Why don't we do that?--and often there isn't a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn't true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush."" — Apr 16, 2012 03:06pm
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Would I ever. I walked up the hill, where the sunlight seemed to touch everything like it was a hyper kid running all over a toy store--it bounced off the dirty metal lampposts, the shiny brass awning posts, even the sunglasses of a woman walking her dogs with a cup of coffee in one hand. Everything shined [note: author's emphasis in italics]. (139)
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard
― Annie Dillard
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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