Culture Commentary and Miscellaneous Musings
And I remembered looking back over my shoulder as we ran away, Eddie Glackin lying there alone, not a friend in sight to hold him as he bled out, and I thought what a lonely world it was for unlovable fucks like us.
page 126
Therefore man was created single in the world to teach that for anybody who destroys a single life it is counted as if he destroyed an entire world, and for anybody who preserves a single life it is counted as if he preserved an entire world.
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 4:9
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer, 1999-2015
As we walked arm in arm in this merry mood, wind brushed against our cheeks–a wind strong enough to lift bougainvillea blossoms off their branches. Did that mean we, too, were characters in a shojo romance?
page 129
I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.
HAL-9000 computer to Dave
But Lucy couldn’t bear to cut down her book collection. How could she when there were so many interesting novels to read in this world, and more coming out every year?
page 91, Chapter 9