Even seasoned veterans of the Psychedelic Police do not expect the opportunity to take possession of their minds controlled by some external force. This never happened to Houston, but he knew that Artmore had once gone through this experience. This clearly did not like. By the time the mad baronet got out of the car and paid its driver, the whole territory was surrounded and filled with well-armed, silent and cautious agents of the Psychodevant Police. Poor fish, Houston thought. Another controller was detained by the psychedelic police. Another abnormal person, already convicted and...
We conveyed this story to a very competent and very good artist. We said, "Read this carefully, dream about it and come up with an illustration." A week later, she returned with a finished drawing. “Hero,” she said. We made a double take. "Hey! This is not a hero. ” She looked us straight in the eye. "Can you prove it?" She had us. We could not, and she hastily left to go home and prepare dinner for her family. And what did they have? Frog legs - what else?...
When you command a spaceship a mile long and armed to the teeth, you certainly do not expect to be asked to get out of here ... The ship, for reasons related to the appropriation policy, was named Senator Joseph L. Holloway, but the press and the public called it Big Joe. Her captain, six-star Admiral Heselton, thought of her as Big Joe, and never ceased to wonder at the size of his command....
Most people, when asked to determine utter loneliness, say that they are alone in the crowd. And you need only one small difference in order to stay in the crowd forever ......
The Pensées ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work....
During the 1800s in America, the rise of industrialization reduced the cost of goods allowing people to have more possessions than ever before. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions created vanity. Instead, they valued the individual’s relationship with divinity. One of the movement’s most famous members, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote prolifically about his beliefs and experiences. A representative selection of his writings is presented here in this volume of the “Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.” In the first essay, “Nature,” Emerson publicly...
The entire Greek world plunged into three decades of bloodshed in 431 B.C., when the ongoing friction between Athens and Sparta exploded into war. Ten years into the struggle, the Athenian general Thucydides was dismissed for a military failure that led to a triumph for posterity: the former general retired to write an account of the war, resulting in one of the world's great history books. Thucydides' chronicle of the disastrous 27-year conflict between the Greek city-states resonates with tales of heroism and villainy, deeds of courage and desperation, and the eternal folly of human...
