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a023bb6	Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.	James K. Morrow
bc51749	At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.	James K. Morrow
e458d18	throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and demagogues. You have paid for your passion in humiliation, mutilation, and sometimes even - as when Henry VIII burned Bible translator William Tyndale as a heretic - immolation. I salute you all, as do my fellow books.	James K. Morrow
6390955	one day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.	James K. Morrow
0b60217	The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibliographic forces; the agent in question never doubts that his authorship is authentic.	James K. Morrow
c309bbf	Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.	James K. Morrow
6391e23	Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.	James K. Morrow
1c96762	The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn.	James K. Morrow
23bee3a	A universe without coincidence would be an exceedingly strange place xxx	James K. Morrow
74592ea	I wanted a real diary, but there wasn't time to visit a stationery store, so instead I ran down to Thrift Drug and got you. According to your cover, you're an 'Official Popeye the Sailor Spiral-Bound Notebook, copyright (c) 1959 King Features Syndicate.' When I look into your wizened face, Popeye, I know you're a man I can trust.	James K. Morrow
524ff91	All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.	James K. Morrow
748a8ee	Abide with me, fleshling, and I shall teach you to run with the fluxions.	James K. Morrow
7d66a3c	You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence, being but Desires of the Mind.	James K. Morrow
66772ae	Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read.	James K. Morrow
8c9f29b	Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?	James K. Morrow
9cc5a4f	Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances,	James K. Morrow
d604fc2	The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx xxx The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia...	James K. Morrow
e63607e	WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH.	James K. Morrow
37250b5	Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.	James K. Morrow
17d64d3	A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants.	James K. Morrow
60594ec	There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.	James K. Morrow
2bcf97c	If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don't know what does.	James K. Morrow
49739fc	The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow.	James K. Morrow
0fd4410	Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.	James K. Morrow
4babb1e	As with all things political, the issue was power.	James K. Morrow
401508c	JOB. And now it's time...JOB. And live.	James K. Morrow
226d0bd	Let's just hope that gravity isn't as heavy as it used to be...	James K. Morrow
509726b	Burne was tough. Burne practiced archeology, the most inconvenient of the sciences.	James K. Morrow
9f4ef47	People found ever more ingenious ways to hate each other.	James K. Morrow
d231fd3	Children, being close to the ground, have a special rapport with insects.	James K. Morrow
896cc51	Tez always had warm feelings about paradoxes. It was the scientist in her.	James K. Morrow
dc6e7c3	Nature may not be benign, but she is reliable.	James K. Morrow
a1dc4fe	Forgive me if I'm confusing you with logic.	James K. Morrow
cbfabed	Every religion says war is evil, but one way or another they end up playing along.	James K. Morrow
70f3fb8	Zolmec," said Nazra, "has always taught that the greatest words are 'I could very well be wrong.'"	James K. Morrow
70a9f44	Sneer, frown, and be miserable, for tomorrow you live.	James K. Morrow
3a687fe	Father says don't kill your principles just because the government is paying for the funeral.	James K. Morrow
c85d4ba	Maybe I'll end up on the fun side of her pants some day.	James K. Morrow
d371e4c	What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.	James K. Morrow
b275427	What good is it having God for a mother if she never sends you a birthday card?	James K. Morrow
e4b31d2	People are always asking, does God exist? Of course she does. The real question: what is she like?	James K. Morrow
4eb6c31	You wouldn't like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.	James K. Morrow
ccce2cc	I think you're so full of shit you've got roses growing out of your ass.	James K. Morrow
0e896da	I can't help suggesting that a God who communicates through leukemia is at best deranged.	James K. Morrow

a023bb6

Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

James K. Morrow

bc51749

At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.

James K. Morrow

e458d18

throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and demagogues. You have paid for your passion in humiliation, mutilation, and sometimes even - as when Henry VIII burned Bible translator William Tyndale as a heretic - immolation. I salute you all, as do my fellow books.

James K. Morrow

6390955

one day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.

James K. Morrow

0b60217

The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibliographic forces; the agent in question never doubts that his authorship is authentic.

James K. Morrow

c309bbf

Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.

James K. Morrow

6391e23

Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.

James K. Morrow

1c96762

The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn.

James K. Morrow

23bee3a

A universe without coincidence would be an exceedingly strange place xxx

James K. Morrow

74592ea

I wanted a real diary, but there wasn't time to visit a stationery store, so instead I ran down to Thrift Drug and got you. According to your cover, you're an 'Official Popeye the Sailor Spiral-Bound Notebook, copyright (c) 1959 King Features Syndicate.' When I look into your wizened face, Popeye, I know you're a man I can trust.

James K. Morrow

524ff91

All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.

James K. Morrow

748a8ee

Abide with me, fleshling, and I shall teach you to run with the fluxions.

James K. Morrow

7d66a3c

You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence, being but Desires of the Mind.

James K. Morrow

66772ae

Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read.

James K. Morrow

8c9f29b

Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?

James K. Morrow

9cc5a4f

Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances,

James K. Morrow

d604fc2

The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx xxx The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia...

James K. Morrow

e63607e

WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH.

James K. Morrow

37250b5

Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.

James K. Morrow

17d64d3

A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants.