Mother Nature doesn’t want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts. - Rudy Rucker

Sybil had an unreal, larger-than-life feeling . . . as if she were a person in a book.

For whatever reason, we find it easier to "read" Hilbert Space patterns in terms of time. Yet the patterns exist outside of time. Thinking timelessly is not some unusual skill; when you remember last night's supper you sense a whole and not a chew-by-chew replay. To know a novel's action is to grasp the four-dimensional spacetime whole described.

The government had recently repealed all speed limits in an attempt to boost oil consumption.