The world was all lapis lazuli and gold on the morning that I first thought of myself as a unit of production, a barcode. Of little more substance than the sickly smiling photopass that swung by a balding string from my belt. It was an epiphany, the first of many. I turned over poss...
Here M. de Thaller dropped his voice; and for some minutes nothing was heard in the dining-room, except confused words, and incomprehensible exclamations, until suddenly, “That is ruin,” he resumed in a furious tone: “it is bankruptcy on the last of the month.” “Sir,” the cashier...
A chorus of gasps and exclamations of awe rippled through the group awaiting them on the overstuffed sofa. This was the dress. Lana knew it as soon as the woman saw herself in the mirror. Now, there were tears in her eyes and a wide smile on her face as her loved ones sang hers an...
or a particle of complete and beautiful nonsense if a man has been looking at a lovely field and imagining upon it a lovely factory producing buttons or bombs; but on the whole these mad particles would be diluted in the drop of objective reality that we hold up to the light in our tes...
The doctor had fidgeted in his chair, uttering a variety of curious, inarticulate exclamations370 while she was speaking. "But, child," he repeated, earnestly, "it would be as much as your life is worth to enter the house. You would come down in a week. You might die!" Lilly looked...