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“It was just fish blood,”  said the Sergeant.  “Nothing to concern us.”

Ellen Entwhistle,  The Caravan Murders.

What evidence is there that “X” knows better than others (about society, social problems, policies)?  The real question is, What evidence could there be?  That is, What kind of evidence establishes that one does know better?

Thomas Albert Walpole,  The Significance of Statistical Outliers.

I look around at this culture, and I find myself bitterly muttering these words: “Actor! Actor! Actor!”

Godfrey Daniel,  Inspecting the Time Domain.

LW was good at logic.  Extraordinary, actually.  But he was not very logical.

Stefan Muntz,  Entropic Processes in Architecture.

Claire listened closely to the State Trooper’s questions.  But her answers were vague, as usual.  Vague in that practiced way of the hopeless no-good.

Clive Ennis,  The Case of the Broken Handle.

If doubt were sustainable at all, then doubt itself would succumb to doubt.

Hugh Drummond,  A Canine World.

Was Laura a happy person?  Well, she is seen to be smiling in several photographs.

Rhonda Carstairs, A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.

Claiming to know is an emotional enterprise.  It has little (or nothing) to do with knowing.

Alistair Danning,  An Anecdotal History of Radicalism.

“Dot com you say?  Gee, that sounds interesting.”  Archibald was engaging in that sneering, mocking thing again.

Grayling Stott,  An Inventory of Characters.

Ads are just movies.  Mercifully short movies.

Malcolm Scrivener,  The Reclining of the West.