“I don’t want to know too much about it,” said Meadows. “Knowing can get in the way.”
Jeremy Malking, The Anechoic Chamber: Stories.
“First,” declared Mr. Humboldt, “we select the conclusion that pleases us. Then, we work backward from there.”
Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.
Which is more intelligent, the host population or the parasite population?
Titus Musgrave, The Mystery of Sleep.
“It is the bank’s fault for being robbed. There is simply too much money there. Let’s put it that way, Andrew.”
Beatrice Landers, The Case of the Disappearing Detective.
“Everything exhibits order,” claimed Evans. “At all levels of reality, and at all times. Chaos is just a clever idea.“
Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.
“Loose pearls scattering across the floor, Ellen? Now that is an awful thing.”
Priscilla Onkers, All About Edward.
“Your kindness, Meredith, is theory. Nothing more.”
Giles Coxe-Coburn, Tooth and Claw.
“Remember, Michelle, you are a machine that I predicted….”
Chadwick Graves, One Damned Thing After Another.
Youritzen has claimed to be the first to advocate that architecture is a form of questioning.
Nigel Swoone, Old Theories of Time.
…and all upon the banke were timber drift and compleat trees dragging downe the Themmes….
James Rakes, “Fit of Lunacie” (1618)
Paul Crackenthorpe, English Pamphleteers of the Seventeenth Century.
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