The shapes they take are both objective and subjective. One can shape them a little with one's own mind. - R. A. Lafferty

A crisis should have thunder in it. If Finnegan and Dotty had been able to generate a crisis with thunder and lightning, things might have been different. But what if the last anchor-cable parts when no one knows it, and the drift has already begun? This is the crisis come and gone.

Fortunately — for the purposes of this study but not for those involved, for it was a bloody affair — the battle was fought all over again fifteen hundred years later on the exact site; and in this modern connection there exists voluminous expert military analysis of the relation of topography to battle action. Many of the anomalies of the great struggle between the forces of Theodosius and Arbogast are explained by comparison with the Italian-Austrian engagement on exactly the same site on August 12, 1916 and the several days following.

Austro, do you know why an obscure Tibetan grammar should suddenly become a hot item in the porno stores?”

“Mr. Sheen, you know I'm not old enough to go into the porno stores.”

“No, but you're old enough to avoid a direct answer to a straight question.