Tag: neal_stephenson

In truth I am no gentleman, though I can be a gentle man
I said it before, sir, you are a gentle man
Once it is before my mind’s eye, I may see it as if it were there, and describe it
I beg your pardon?
I see incontrovertible signs of nakedness in her
Modest. Nothing gaudy
This produced a brief but profound silence
What the hell are you doing?
Do you really think it will go unnoticed?
At any rate, the Wheel has now turned again
My life has been uneventful by comparison
A smile might have played round my lips
For confusion is a kind of bewitchment
Pay attention, that’s all. Notice things
Connect what you’ve noticed. Connect it into a picture
You could not extract the Philosophic Mercury from gold
And I am not in the mood to be tender and conciliatory just now
Gold and silver will appear in our coffers as if by magic
I have begun thinking like an Alchemist
There are ragged bandit gangs all over the place
I do not know the nature of your involvement with this
That? It is a hole in the wall, a niche, a dovecote
I confess that I was observing through the window
In coming weeks, I’ll be moving around quite a bit
It makes me worry that you are about to get in trouble again
It felt as if it had been stung by a bee
It was the sort of dilemma that might make a fellow anxious
Because the next thing you’ll do is melt it down to extract that mystery
The process of abstraction continues
You are so frequently seen in the company of these fine persons
He had flown into a rage and made a tremendous commotion
Truly the forkings and wanderings of the Nile are as unknowable as the streets of Cairo
Of course there was much more to it than that
They did not begin to be human again until the sun went down
He drew half a breath of air and half of water
Here was the moment when he would simply disappear
Her voice sounded quite strange at first
They are there because they look good
I already impose on your hospitality too much
At last I have rendered you speechless
He paid close attention to his appearance
The double entendre is noted
For how could I give you any aid in such a matter?
Thank you for not making a scene
Give it another two or three years’ thought
The roof would never keep rain out, but it shrugged off the snow
Please do not make me laugh!
The responsibility now falls upon you to make it all happen
Well, in any case it is certainly an improvement on your appearance the last time I saw you
But to express cogitations is not to perform them