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She said, “Look me right in the eye, and tell me you don’t love me, and I’ll go.” He stared at her. “Miss, I do not love you.” “Don’t give me that rot! I’m coming with you, and that’s final!” “Daphne, you just said that if I said…” “That doesn’t count! I said look me right in the eye! You were stari ...

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“Mrs. Earwig said the village women know what to do,” said Annagramma hopefully. “She says to trust in their peasant wisdom.” “Well, Mrs. Obble was the old woman who called, and she has just got simple peasant ignorance,” said Tiffany. “She puts leaf mold on wounds if you don’t watch her. Look, just ...

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“This is just a first draft,” to have the attitude of Terry Pratchet: “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

Когато пишеш, защото не можеш да НЕ пишеш и да не разказваш истории сам на себе си...

"… the part that confuses me most is how animals and plants fight each other for survival. Like hunting and being hunted? Nobody 'wins' those wars, cause every soldier dies anyway, eventually? Most of the time, what looks to them like fighting isn't really fighting at all! Cause each of them d ...

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A tug at Logan's elbow made him turn. "It started with a noise, mister." One of the teenagers, his hair cut short, Ra Boy style, gestured toward the muddy lake bed below. "It was this low hum. Y'know? Like the water sort of sang ." His sister nodded. A little younger but nearly as tall, she wore a ...

He – and he was quite definitely a he, there was no possible doubt about that – had been carved out of the turf thousands of years before. A white outline against the green, he belonged to the days when people had to think about survival and fertility in a dangerous world. Oh, and he had also been c ...

‘I’m sure the death of our Baron has upset us all,’ she began, and got no further, because the cook sat bolt upright in the chair and pointed a trembling finger at her. ‘All except you, you creature!’ she accused. ‘I seed you, oh yes, I seed you! Everyone was sobbing and crying and wailing, but not ...

The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to teach Cimorene all the things a princess ought to know— dancing, embroidery, drawing, and etiquette. There was a great deal of etiquette, from the proper way to curtsy before a visiting prince to how l ...

Worldwide Long Range Solutions Special Interest Group [ ¤ SIG AeR.WLRS 253787890.546]. Space Colonization Subgroup. Open discussion board. Okay, so imagine we get past the next few rough decades and finally do what we should have back in TwenCen. Say we mine asteroids for platinum, discover the ...

"Ето защо не харесвам магията, капитане. Щото е магия . Не може да задаваш въпроси - става дума за магия. Не обяснява нищо - става дума за магия. Не знаеш откъде идва - става дума за магия! Това не й харесвам на магията - прави всичко с магия!" - Сам Ваймс "Туп!", Тери Пратчет :D

"There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long... ... PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution." Spider Jerusalem, "Transmetropolitan ...

Малко въпроси и отговори за позволените ни неща на територията на InitLab като искаме да правим по приятелска линия нещо там. С благодарност към Ал! Възможности и условности при ползване на InitLab като място за срещи, обучения, др. - отговаря Ал (Dante Lee): Въпрос 1: лесно (в смисъл бързо) и възмож ...

Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms, then got back up by raising itself to the nth power, but the King so belabored it with differentials and partial derivatives that its Fourier ...

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The argument was this: a civilization shackled to the strictures of excessive control on its populace, from choice of religion through to the production of goods, will sap the will and the ingenuity of its people – for whom such qualities are no longer given sufficient incentive or reward. At face v ...

Попитай и ще ти се отговори... Kelly tried to let his cares flow away as he took off his clothes. He almost succeeded, but there was still a little knot of worry remaining, and, of course, Danis noticed. “Lie down and let me give you a massage,” she instructed him. Danis dimmed the lights down to a ...

Theory surveyed his new surroundings. The landscape seemed weather-beaten and immensely old. He poked through some of the rubble. There were ancient pieces of code here, broken beyond recognition. But after turning over a larger rock, Theory saw beneath it the clear remains of a corporate logo ...

It's easy to mistake being innocent for being simpleminded or naive. We all want to seem sophisticated; we all want to seem street-smart. To be innocent is to be "out of it." Yet there is a deep truth in innocence. A baby looks in his mother's eyes, and all he sees is love. As innocence fades away ...

I know a wise little girl who cannot walk. She is confined to a wheelchair, and she may spend the rest of her life there, since her doctors hold out almost no hope of ever making her paralyzed legs better. When I first met this little girl, she flashed me a smile that burned me with its blazing ...

Да продължа и аз "зелената" тематика... Из интервю ( та ) с Грегъри Колбърт: I began with social issues. But I realized that if you really want to do something, it is through enchantment that you can inspire people to actually act. People don’t need to go to some white, sterile cubed museum where the ...