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1a1f16b	Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will."		Carlos Castaneda
8eb9134	Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do... Look at every path closely and deliberately... Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. --Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan		Mike Clelland
8419e1b	What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift.		Carlos Castaneda
4d4ec93	You must wait patiently, knowing that you're waiting, and knowing what you're waiting for. That is the warrior's way. And if it is a matter of fulfilling your promise then you must be aware that you are fulfilling it. Then a time will come when your waiting will be over and you will no longer have to honor your promise.		Carlos Castaneda
dcdc524	A fine power is always heralded by great pain.		Carlos Castaneda
3e5c4ec	When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?	precision wonder	Rebecca Goldstein
6f9d9ff	I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker."	perspective vocabulary	Rebecca Goldstein
f9c9f26	one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfall--in fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts to it. "At that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief."		Rebecca Goldstein
7fab20d	RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics.	ipad kindle technology	Leah Price
85f3f41	Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.		Rebecca Goldstein
1afc44c	Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.	passover-seder this-year-we-are-slaves	Rebecca Goldstein
f6a0e65	As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.	order predictability	Rebecca Goldstein
b4d2d3f	New York City is a phoenix rising from the ashes.	new-york new-york-city phoenix phoenix-rising sad september-11-attacks terrorism world-trade-center	Rebecca McNutt
ae38c89	Soon after Harris's HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes. This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme ..	genetics hela henrietta-lacks human-genome medical-research	Rebecca Skloot
b42e34b	Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.	canada cape-breton coal created death dying kodak-moment memory mining nostalgia nova-scotia person pollution society steel super-8 threw	Rebecca McNutt
f3629a7	Um, thanks," Jackson told her. "And your name is...?" "I'm Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf," she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. "Van Der Graaf?" Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn't want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but... Van Der Graaf? "What are you laughing at?" Margaret asked with curiosity..	comedy friendship funny ghost humor longing lonliness name smile stranger weird	Rebecca McNutt
9932dd4	What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.	dreams inspirational life philosophy supposed	Rebecca McNutt
7103481	If you were me you'd do the right thing, help your friends, because you're not a coward," Mandy sighed sadly. "I covered up a murder because I was scared to go to jail and I did the wrong thing... well, now's my chance to do the right thing, to save someone's life, because I don't want you to die." "Save someone's life? I'm no one," Alecto laughed morbidly. "A hundred and twelve years is definitely way too long to have survived. You'd be wa..	cape-breton coward crime death disturbance dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend jail loss misery moral-values morals murder nova-scotia ocean rescue right scary seaside suicide wrong	Rebecca McNutt
e32bbc4	And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?	insanity sorrow time	Rebecca McNutt
739c692	There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it... this place, she decided, was called Smog City.	canada city concept cruel death film forgotten grief heaven kodachrome kodak nostalgia smog steel super-8	Rebecca McNutt
5ac577c	With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature," Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. "I didn't create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren't many of them left these days but they're still very dangerous! They're here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don't understa..	canada cape-breton chemicals chernobyl coal death disturbing dying earth entity environment fear green grief hazardous hippie imaginary imagination loss love-canal mother-earth nature nova-scotia pollution recycle representation scared smog steel storm suicide sydney-tar-ponds tar tar-sands toxic-waste	Rebecca McNutt
999d312	Son, let me tell you a little something about the environment... you can try to fix it up all you want, but it's a waste of time. Sooner or later we'll all be doomed... slaughtered by terrorists, baked in the heat of the sun, nuked until our shadows glow... greed is good. We don't exist to help other people, we exist to grow the hell up, have kids, get old and die, while consuming all we can. Nothing comes after. There's no wrath, no day of..	environment fix greed heat nice nuclear rich sun terrorism	Rebecca McNutt
8a0d0c5	Super 8 film is the language of silence.	cape-breton film kodak kodak-moment language nostalgia nova-scotia obscure photography seventies silence super-8	Rebecca McNutt
da1b5b6	She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."	cigarette dragging line live loud mind music noise noisy place question quiet radio smoking song thinking thought tommy-james world	Rebecca McNutt
080c3c2	I love you," he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. "I'd trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems... you never deserved this... why would anyone do something so terrible!?" A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again. The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden..	bulb death depressing dim electricity empty explode eyes fluorescent friendship grief heart hospital i-love-you lobotomy loss love mental-hospital psychosurgery tragic	Rebecca McNutt
b8b2676	Why did you revive me?" Alecto repeated. "Well... uh, well...." Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. "They say there are five stages of grief, you know... five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Not in any particular order. Anyhow, I denied your death, I was angry about it, I bargained with Mearth to try and get her to un-bury your site and I was depressed about the whole ordeal. One thing I just fr..	anger bargaining crazy death death-of-a-loved-one dehumanization denial depression discredit dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend loss lunatic mourning revival sadness	Rebecca McNutt
4fd9e52	Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.	media news newspaper sensationalism tragedy world	Rebecca McNutt
b49daf0	There's a good reason for everything, ain't there?	inspirational optimism reason	Rebecca McNutt
4299a25	Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse."	ask bereavement deal death-dying death-of-a-friend death-of-a-loved-one easy grief lie loss love mourning saying time worse	Rebecca McNutt
d1563b4	Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that's not a good thing!	fantasy fantasy-world good imagination mental-illness psychology recluse world	Rebecca McNutt
de3efa9	What are you doing?" Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. "See, don't be afraid of the glass, it can't hurt us," Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass. "I wasn't afraid of the glass, but this isn't a ver..	air best-friends blue canada cape-breton children colored crashing cut depression flashcube friend friends friendship fun funny glass glitter green greenhouse growing-up house kodak love noir noise nostalgia nova-scotia red scarecrow sharp shatter smile sorry stained-glass trees vandalism vibrancy waves whispering wind-chimes yellow	Rebecca McNutt
c6d85ed	The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. "Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well," he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. "You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it's a disease. We have un..	career earth earth-day environmentalism go-green green hippie industry-decline job manager newspaper nostalgia pollution print recycle shop smog	Rebecca McNutt
5ba1edb	Whether you live or die, whether you're bad or good, whether you're born or not, it's all arbitrary... but what can I say? I don't like fate or chance, and I don't always play by the rules, legalist as I am.	attorneys chance fate law legalism legalist philosophy vigilante	Rebecca McNutt
97c866a	Where would we be without our painful childhoods?	depression humor humorous pain past psychology sad sad-but-true trauma	Rebecca McNutt
6f35fe4	She fought the urge to scream, feeling desperately like she needed to run, that she needed to go as far away from Manhattan as possible and never even give it so much as a backwards glance, but she was frozen to the spot like a wind-up toy that had finally given out. "This city is falling apart!" she shouted in cheerful trauma, her voice shaky and muddled by anxious, messy laughter as it resounded in her head. In a coping sort of euphoria s..	nervous-breakdown new-york new-york-city posttraumatic-stress-disorder september-11-attacks trauma twin-towers world-trade-center	Rebecca McNutt
5dc8a7b	Every day it's something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because they'll all be available electronically. She says that electric cars will replace gasoline-powered cars. She says that something called drones will be used to watch the entire country, she talks a lot about something called nanotechnology, and 3-dimensional printing and cellular phones being implanted into peop..	digital film led-lights memory mental-illness microchips minds nanotechnology nostalgia obsolete retro sinister technology telephone	Rebecca McNutt
9d07045	Everybody has magic, it's just that most people either don't know it, or don't believe it.	fantasy magic powers sorcery talent wizardry	Rebecca McNutt
4d6cb72	It's not some romanticized Atticus Finch-type picnic. You'd probably love it, the whole risk of it all, but it's not without a price. Out there in this city when you pass the bar, it's all broken dreams and out-of-reach stars. You have to be brilliant, and you have to throw away your social life, your hobbies, but more than that you can't get your moral values mixed up with legal ethics. They'll both clash whenever you least expect it, and ..	attorney bar-exam law law-school lawyer legal legal-system life morality	Rebecca McNutt
2b4c45f	Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.	canada cape-breton little nova-scotia photography picture prett smile sydney-tar-ponds	Rebecca McNutt
7d7144c	All sharks were born swimming.	ruthless shark sink-or-swim swim	Rebecca McNutt
a7191c9	I've got money!" Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. "I mean, I don't know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but I've got a ton of cash! It's in a hat box under my bed! I've got a bright red Lexus in the garage, I've got my engagement ring upstairs, it's real gold... there must be something we can trade off with..." "You can't bribe me away, I'm afraid,"..	bribe car cash dead death die dying engagement engagement-ring frantic funny garage grim-reaper hat-box lexus money sad tragic under-the-bed weird	Rebecca McNutt
8b619ff	He felt like the world didn't want him, like he was born hated, and he was. He was smart, he was funny, he'd never done a bad deed in his life, born innocent just like all the rest of us... but he was black in a white world, and I think somewhere along the way, he stopped feeling like a human being.	bigotry dehumanization hatred prejudice race racism	Rebecca McNutt
0169f27	And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!	prophets	John Barth
56e1e36	The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.		John Barth

1a1f16b

Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will."

Carlos Castaneda

8eb9134

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do... Look at every path closely and deliberately... Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. --Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan

Mike Clelland

8419e1b

What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift.

Carlos Castaneda

4d4ec93

You must wait patiently, knowing that you're waiting, and knowing what you're waiting for. That is the warrior's way. And if it is a matter of fulfilling your promise then you must be aware that you are fulfilling it. Then a time will come when your waiting will be over and you will no longer have to honor your promise.

Carlos Castaneda

dcdc524

A fine power is always heralded by great pain.

Carlos Castaneda

3e5c4ec

When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?

precision wonder

Rebecca Goldstein

6f9d9ff

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker."

perspective vocabulary

Rebecca Goldstein

f9c9f26

one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfall--in fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts to it. "At that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief."

Rebecca Goldstein

7fab20d

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics.

ipad kindle technology

Leah Price

85f3f41

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

Rebecca Goldstein

1afc44c

Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.

passover-seder this-year-we-are-slaves

Rebecca Goldstein

f6a0e65

As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

order predictability

Rebecca Goldstein

b4d2d3f

New York City is a phoenix rising from the ashes.

new-york new-york-city phoenix phoenix-rising sad september-11-attacks terrorism world-trade-center

Rebecca McNutt

ae38c89

Soon after Harris's HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes. This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme ..

genetics hela henrietta-lacks human-genome medical-research

Rebecca Skloot

b42e34b

Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.

canada cape-breton coal created death dying kodak-moment memory mining nostalgia nova-scotia person pollution society steel super-8 threw

Rebecca McNutt

f3629a7

Um, thanks," Jackson told her. "And your name is...?" "I'm Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf," she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. "Van Der Graaf?" Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn't want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but... Van Der Graaf? "What are you laughing at?" Margaret asked with curiosity..

comedy friendship funny ghost humor longing lonliness name smile stranger weird

Rebecca McNutt

9932dd4

What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.

dreams inspirational life philosophy supposed

Rebecca McNutt

7103481

If you were me you'd do the right thing, help your friends, because you're not a coward," Mandy sighed sadly. "I covered up a murder because I was scared to go to jail and I did the wrong thing... well, now's my chance to do the right thing, to save someone's life, because I don't want you to die." "Save someone's life? I'm no one," Alecto laughed morbidly. "A hundred and twelve years is definitely way too long to have survived. You'd be wa..

cape-breton coward crime death disturbance dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend jail loss misery moral-values morals murder nova-scotia ocean rescue right scary seaside suicide wrong

Rebecca McNutt

e32bbc4

And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?

insanity sorrow time

Rebecca McNutt

739c692

There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it... this place, she decided, was called Smog City.

canada city concept cruel death film forgotten grief heaven kodachrome kodak nostalgia smog steel super-8

Rebecca McNutt

5ac577c

With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature," Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. "I didn't create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren't many of them left these days but they're still very dangerous! They're here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don't understa..

canada cape-breton chemicals chernobyl coal death disturbing dying earth entity environment fear green grief hazardous hippie imaginary imagination loss love-canal mother-earth nature nova-scotia pollution recycle representation scared smog steel storm suicide sydney-tar-ponds tar tar-sands toxic-waste

Rebecca McNutt

999d312

Son, let me tell you a little something about the environment... you can try to fix it up all you want, but it's a waste of time. Sooner or later we'll all be doomed... slaughtered by terrorists, baked in the heat of the sun, nuked until our shadows glow... greed is good. We don't exist to help other people, we exist to grow the hell up, have kids, get old and die, while consuming all we can. Nothing comes after. There's no wrath, no day of..

environment fix greed heat nice nuclear rich sun terrorism

Rebecca McNutt

8a0d0c5

Super 8 film is the language of silence.

cape-breton film kodak kodak-moment language nostalgia nova-scotia obscure photography seventies silence super-8

Rebecca McNutt

da1b5b6

She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."

cigarette dragging line live loud mind music noise noisy place question quiet radio smoking song thinking thought tommy-james world

Rebecca McNutt

080c3c2

I love you," he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. "I'd trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems... you never deserved this... why would anyone do something so terrible!?" A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again. The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden..

bulb death depressing dim electricity empty explode eyes fluorescent friendship grief heart hospital i-love-you lobotomy loss love mental-hospital psychosurgery tragic

Rebecca McNutt

b8b2676

Why did you revive me?" Alecto repeated. "Well... uh, well...." Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. "They say there are five stages of grief, you know... five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Not in any particular order. Anyhow, I denied your death, I was angry about it, I bargained with Mearth to try and get her to un-bury your site and I was depressed about the whole ordeal. One thing I just fr..

anger bargaining crazy death death-of-a-loved-one dehumanization denial depression discredit dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend loss lunatic mourning revival sadness

Rebecca McNutt

4fd9e52

Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.

media news newspaper sensationalism tragedy world

Rebecca McNutt

b49daf0

There's a good reason for everything, ain't there?

inspirational optimism reason

Rebecca McNutt

4299a25

Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse."

ask bereavement deal death-dying death-of-a-friend death-of-a-loved-one easy grief lie loss love mourning saying time worse

Rebecca McNutt

d1563b4

Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that's not a good thing!

fantasy fantasy-world good imagination mental-illness psychology recluse world

Rebecca McNutt

de3efa9

What are you doing?" Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. "See, don't be afraid of the glass, it can't hurt us," Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass. "I wasn't afraid of the glass, but this isn't a ver..

air best-friends blue canada cape-breton children colored crashing cut depression flashcube friend friends friendship fun funny glass glitter green greenhouse growing-up house kodak love noir noise nostalgia nova-scotia red scarecrow sharp shatter smile sorry stained-glass trees vandalism vibrancy waves whispering wind-chimes yellow

Rebecca McNutt

c6d85ed

The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. "Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well," he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. "You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it's a disease. We have un..

career earth earth-day environmentalism go-green green hippie industry-decline job manager newspaper nostalgia pollution print recycle shop smog

Rebecca McNutt

5ba1edb

Whether you live or die, whether you're bad or good, whether you're born or not, it's all arbitrary... but what can I say? I don't like fate or chance, and I don't always play by the rules, legalist as I am.

attorneys chance fate law legalism legalist philosophy vigilante

Rebecca McNutt

97c866a

Where would we be without our painful childhoods?

depression humor humorous pain past psychology sad sad-but-true trauma

Rebecca McNutt

6f35fe4

She fought the urge to scream, feeling desperately like she needed to run, that she needed to go as far away from Manhattan as possible and never even give it so much as a backwards glance, but she was frozen to the spot like a wind-up toy that had finally given out. "This city is falling apart!" she shouted in cheerful trauma, her voice shaky and muddled by anxious, messy laughter as it resounded in her head. In a coping sort of euphoria s..

nervous-breakdown new-york new-york-city posttraumatic-stress-disorder september-11-attacks trauma twin-towers world-trade-center

Rebecca McNutt

5dc8a7b

Every day it's something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because they'll all be available electronically. She says that electric cars will replace gasoline-powered cars. She says that something called drones will be used to watch the entire country, she talks a lot about something called nanotechnology, and 3-dimensional printing and cellular phones being implanted into peop..

digital film led-lights memory mental-illness microchips minds nanotechnology nostalgia obsolete retro sinister technology telephone

Rebecca McNutt

9d07045

Everybody has magic, it's just that most people either don't know it, or don't believe it.

fantasy magic powers sorcery talent wizardry

Rebecca McNutt

4d6cb72

It's not some romanticized Atticus Finch-type picnic. You'd probably love it, the whole risk of it all, but it's not without a price. Out there in this city when you pass the bar, it's all broken dreams and out-of-reach stars. You have to be brilliant, and you have to throw away your social life, your hobbies, but more than that you can't get your moral values mixed up with legal ethics. They'll both clash whenever you least expect it, and ..

attorney bar-exam law law-school lawyer legal legal-system life morality

Rebecca McNutt

2b4c45f

Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.

canada cape-breton little nova-scotia photography picture prett smile sydney-tar-ponds

Rebecca McNutt

7d7144c

All sharks were born swimming.

ruthless shark sink-or-swim swim

Rebecca McNutt

a7191c9

I've got money!" Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. "I mean, I don't know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but I've got a ton of cash! It's in a hat box under my bed! I've got a bright red Lexus in the garage, I've got my engagement ring upstairs, it's real gold... there must be something we can trade off with..." "You can't bribe me away, I'm afraid,"..

bribe car cash dead death die dying engagement engagement-ring frantic funny garage grim-reaper hat-box lexus money sad tragic under-the-bed weird

Rebecca McNutt

8b619ff

He felt like the world didn't want him, like he was born hated, and he was. He was smart, he was funny, he'd never done a bad deed in his life, born innocent just like all the rest of us... but he was black in a white world, and I think somewhere along the way, he stopped feeling like a human being.

bigotry dehumanization hatred prejudice race racism

Rebecca McNutt

0169f27

And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!

prophets

John Barth

56e1e36

The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.

John Barth