... for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her - though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character, and truly loved her society - I must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude; or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for him had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought. It is a new circumstance in romance, I acknowledge, and dreadfully derogatory of an heroine's dignity; but if it be as new in common life, the credit of a wild imagination will at least be all my own.
O Pula-Pula rodou um pouco o guiador. - Aí está! Uma Quarta Dimensão!
O Circulista riu-se. - Não seja parvo! O que fez foi movê-la no espaço tridimensional.
- Sim, mas ela mudou de forma.
- Ridículo!
- Não, mudou mesmo - disse Vikki. - Se a forma ainda fosse a mesma, teria resultado de um deslocamento de corpo rígido. Ora esta parte com chifres moveu-se, mas o resto não. Não foi um deslocamento de corpo rígido!
- Ah bem, visto dessa forma, acredito que sim. Mas se houve movimento numa nova Dimensão, onde é que ela está?
- Estende-se na direcção virar-o-guiador - disse o Pula-Pula. - Que é diferente da direcção virar-o-círculo-da-frente, que é diferente da direcção virar-o-círculo-de-trás, que é diferente da direcção dar-aos-pedais. Aí tem quatro novas dimensões, a juntar às três que tinha inicialmente. A sua Bicirculeta tem sete dimensões.
As pessoas cultas sabem - e, sobretudo para seu infortúnio, as pessoas incultas desconhecem-no - que a cultura é antes de mais uma questão de orientação. Ser culto não é ter lido este ou aquele livro, é saber orientar-se na totalidade dos livros, logo, saber que os mesmos formam um conjunto, e ter a capacidade para situar cada elemento relativamente aos outros. Aqui, o interior importa menos do que o exterior ou, se quisermos, o interior de um livro é o seu exterior, sendo que o que conta em cada livro são os que estão ao seu lado.
My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever, the results are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form this final product of my brain. Invariably my device works as I conceived that it should, and the experiment comes out exactly as I planned it. In twenty years there has not been a single exception. Why should it be otherwise? Engineering, electrical and mechanical, is positive in results. There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data. The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time.
A concept album exploring themes of broadcast communications, Radio-Activity marked Kraftwerk's return to more obtuse territory, extensively utilizing static, oscillators, and even Cage-like moments of silence to approximate the sense of radio transmission;
Every period in one's life, I saw, bustles with novel worthy passions, dilemmas, and energies specific to that age. (...) What better reason to get writing now? With each passing era, a new novel is possible. And a potentially great book you could have written slips away into noveling oblivion.
A melhor coisa que se podia dizer acerca de viajar para o estrangeiro com Katz era que se poupava o resto da América a ter de passar o Verão com ele.
Depressa se tornou um ruído de fundo, uma pessoa do outro lado da mesa que acolhia cada novo prato com «que é esta merda?», um estranho hiperactivo que falava continuamente de erros grosseiros e ia inexplicavelmente atrás de mim para onde quer que eu fosse, até que, passado algum tempo, eu me abstraía dele e passava um Verão quase tão agradável e, num certo sentido, tão solitário como o anterior.
"My mother used to tell me, when I was small, that if I studied jujitsu with the local barber who taught in the loft over his shop, I would be able to throw a big man with only one finger.
'How many big men have only one finger, Mother?' I asked, being literal to the quick. But when I understood what she meant I was not surprised, since I had realized even earlier than that, that adversity has it compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise."
People prone to obesity, calorie conscious people, and those suffering from certain forms of illness such as diabetes, are limited in their intake of chocolate and confectionery. In order that they shall not be deprived of these attractive foods a number of modified confections have created.Eu, que fui contaminada com sarcasmos até um ponto terminal, li esta passagem com todos os tipos de ênfase maldoso. E, independentemente de mim ou da triste chico-espertice opiniosa de quem quer que seja, o texto mantém-se impassível, com a bondade da realidade.
Irony is the bringing together of contradictory truths. To make out of the contradiction a new truth with a laugh or a smile (...)
You think? I came here from Province alone, uneducated. For 6 months, no, more than that, a year, I sat in a cafe, drank coffee and wrote nonsense in a journal. Then suddenly it was not nonsense. I went for long walks and I met myself in Paris. You seem embarassed by loneliness - but you see, it's only a place to start.
Sabrina fair,
listen where thou art sitting under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
in twisted braids of lilies knitting the loose train of thy amber-dropping hair
It's the difference between being with a grown man and entertaining a schoolboy.(Parade's End)
