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innashpitzberg7 октября 2012 г.Читать далее"Porcepic," grinned the tailor, "you'll be surprised one day. At what we will do."
"Nothing surprises me," answered Porcepic. "If history were cyclical, we'd now be in a decadence, would we not, and your projected Revolution only another symptom of it."
"A decadence is a falling-away," said Kholsky. "We rise."
"A decadence," Itague put in, "is a falling-away from what is human, and the further we fall the less human we become. Because we are less human, we foist off the humanity we have lost on inanimate objects and abstract theories."
10248- innashpitzberg7 октября 2012 г.
"Oh that makes me sick. Can't you stop feeling sorry for yourself? You've taken your own flabby, clumsy soul and amplified it into a Universal Principle."
10246 - innashpitzberg5 октября 2012 г.Читать далее
That night, April 15, David Ben-Gurion warned his country in an Independence Day speech that Egypt planned to slaughter Israel. A Mideast crisis had been growing since winter. April 19, a cease-fire between the two countries went into effect. Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco the same day. The spring thus wore on, large currents and small eddies alike resulting in headlines. People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws. In the city of New York alone there were at a rough estimate five million different rathouses. God knew what was going on in the minds of cabinet ministers, heads of state and civil servants in the capitals of the world. Doubtless their private versions of history showed up in action. If a normal distribution of types prevailed they did.
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Apsny12 ноября 2012 г....Султан совершил ошибку – роковую ошибку в разговоре с любой женщиной: решил доказать, что она не права.
9305- innashpitzberg8 октября 2012 г.
The Armageddon had swept past, the professionals who'd survived had received no blessing, no gift of tongues. Despite all attempts to cut its career short the tough old earth would take its own time in dying and would die of old age.
9168 - innashpitzberg6 октября 2012 г.
The study now under way had to do with first-aid training, and various versions of SHOCK - synthetic human object, casualty kinematics - got to sit in the driver's, death, or back seat of the test cars. Profane still felt a certain kinship with SHOCK, which was the first inanimate schlemihl he'd ever encountered.
9164 - innashpitzberg5 октября 2012 г.
So far no agency he'd been to had sent him anywhere for a job interview. He had to agree with them. To amuse himself he'd looked in Help Wanted under S. Nobody wanted a schlemihl.
9162 - innashpitzberg5 октября 2012 г.
But when the English speak of 'passing down' something from one generation to another, it is only that. A son passes nothing back up. Perhaps this is a sad thing, and not Christian, but it has been that way since time out of mind, and will never change.
9160 - innashpitzberg5 октября 2012 г.Читать далее
He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of those who happened to be in on it at any specific moment. Since these several minds tended to form a sum total or complex more mongrel than homogeneous, The Situation must necessarily appear to a single observer much like a diagram in four dimensions to an eye conditioned to seeing its world in only three. Hence the success or failure of any diplomatic issue must vary directly with the degree of rapport achieved by the team confronting it. This had led to the near-obsession with teamwork which had inspired his colleagues to dub him Soft-shoe Sidney, on the assumption that he was at his best working in front of a chorus line.
But it was a neat theory, and he was in love with it. The only consolation he drew from the present chaos was that his theory managed to explain it.
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