Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot. - Neal Stephenson

The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening,” Miss Pao said, “regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique.” (describing a young man who flew off a bicycle at high speed)

He had a sense of irony that ruled his life, made it impossible for him to use his considerable brains in any kind of serious job. Kind of like me.

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words — are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?