Memorable passages excerpted from some of the neglected books mentioned or featured on this site.March 1, from 365 Days, edited by Kay Boyle, Laurence Vail, and Nina Conarain (1936) 1 March 2024 “Doctor, connected with hospital, requires in private practice, light colored girl. Must be n...
Height - gaussian, bell curve, applied in cases where it doesn't fit Power law - letter L Most companies treat employees as bell curve distribution. But the tails aren't symmetrical, bad employees get fired, the worst don't even make it in the door. Human performance follows power law d...
One summer when Kataryn was just eight years old, she so angered Miss Abby with some trivial infraction that her aunt threw her first belongings in a bag, took her to the train station, and put her aboard a train to Montreal, where the girl’s long-missing father was known to have so...
What she hasn’t yet mentioned to her new friends is that she’s actually part of another secret club, where the only other member is God. Treating the deity like a diary, Margaret reveals things to God that she tells to no one else — not even her new friends. 14. Aristotle and ...
(the story touches on this, but since it was David overhearing gossip about it (something like that), I didn’t count it as a definite reason, though it is a highly probable one), so it makes sense to have a resolution involving the army at the end. I love the movie’s ending, ...
Don’t let the occultism of the examples put you off. After all, the earliest forays into movable books occurred in alchemical and Kabbalistic tomes. As Kiesel, also a book maker, points out: Opening a folding plate causes an interruption in the reading process. It offers the reader an op...
Mairin’s breath caught in her throat as comprehension crept over her. This place was the one mentioned in scandalized whispers from the older girls at school. It was the one people gossiped about when a girl suddenly stopped showing up to class. It was the place angry parents—like her ...
What I immediately noticed upon getting to know Dave was that unlike the esteemed group of colleagues mentioned above, his expertise was always offered freely and graciously without an accompanying dose of prickliness. Whether personally dealing with a mother frantic to pick up her kid’s assigned...
Oh and the creature gets Lucille. Who was this crazy girl I never mentioned, but she is crazy and shook a baby to death to get into jail. So. No harm, no foul. Mission not over though, cause this is when all the shit hits the fan. As Lucille is struggling not to blow up, Peac...
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