My head filled with imaginary arguments
I couldn’t have him chasing me from one library to another, for all I knew he might visit every library within twenty miles, regaling everyone in his path with his friendliness.
Wondering how he managed to botch simple Wikipedia instructions
Some of the Orlandos live in towns and villages and hamlets but most live in cities, residing in studio apartments others find sad and shrinking but the Orlandos consider palatial. They uniformly believe dusk to be the cruelest time of day, the way it drowns the sun in the black waters of the horizon.
A period of loneliness
As if things couldn’t get any worse, playing cards came pouring out of his extra large wireless breasts unexpectedly. The trained showman in him turned it into something which seemed entirely planned.
A Development Problem
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has identified Maoists as the single most serious threat to India’s national security. In the last few years, these facts have been well-circulated in news reports on India’s stability. But who are the Maoists? What do they believe?
I can bear anything for the sake of beauty
As if in response to these words a faint moan came from the girl’s lips. Slowly she began to recover her senses. With each shuddering breath, the spider’s legs stirred as if they were alive.
We are what we believe
Our believing brains make no qualitative distinctions between the kinds of things you learn in a math textbook and the kinds of things you learn in Sunday school.
A plague at a feast
States are not so much declining, failing and yielding as transforming their very nature. The network is the right metaphor to grasping the new state’s complexity.
I plunge my spear into your body many times
You are quick like a monkey, running through the tree-tops, But now you will die.
Something that ought to have remained hidden
“We’re so motivated to get rid of that feeling that we look for meaning and coherence elsewhere,”
Abject poverty and perpetual debt
Long lines of people stretched around city blocks in front of ATM machines, waiting hours to withdraw the equivalent of US $3—the maximum allowed by law.
A robust role in the slaughter
America’s best and brightest will continue to explore innovative ways for human rights to serve a thoroughly militarized foreign policy
I still like you
It is silent.
I don’t smoke.
I don’t want to bother her.
She continues to cry.
The terrorism of politesse maintains an imperceptible distance
What are you in the art world? The answer, and the art world, matter less each time the question is asked.
Not only to expand but to reorganize the world in its own image
It is unlikely that anyone has ever confused a page of Thomas Friedman’s with one of Immanuel Kant’s, but between them it is possible to triangulate a prevailing sensibility of the past two decades.
The gods of profit and production
Today, approximately a billion people — close to one-sixth of humanity — suffer from continual and severe hunger.
