Je savais très bien que mon cerveau était un riche bassin minier, où il y avait une étendue immense et fort diverse de gisements précieux. Mais aurais-je le temps de les exploiter ? J’étais la seul…

The U.S. ambassador to Greece is facing accusations that she asked a donor to pay off her credit card bill before she took up her post in Athens.

Or is the real problem — that one is not “spherical.” That these are the concerns of the Non-Spherical Man?… Now why could that not be one of their superhero-movie superheroes — The Non-Spherical M…

"cross out with lines, draw lines across (something written) so as to deface," from… See origin and meaning of cancel.

12:0012:05Dog walk. Beard still wet from a recent shower. Mind set: trying to craft lively reply to a group chat.Dog trying to lead me across a low lying area I suspect of having standing water. I …

Updating my “writers’ habits of spending” (which I wonder, too, why I didn’t call it “Writers’ Spending Habits”)… Fitzgerald looks to be another of these writers drive…

Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.

Below is a list of all the mentions of hats in Against the Day (that I came across). Here are the types of hat mentioned with a rough count of how many times they were mentioned — Hat types: …

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She returned home and wrote: Dear Abe, I’ve felt awful all day about this morning’s note, in which I fear I spoke with too great a casualness about your work. I hope you think little en…

… She pats soddenly, with the flat of her hand, a patty of sand. … An inner tube overturned in the wave: it knows what’s happened sooner than the rider does. … The girl extends her thumb far to the…