Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story
Stephen KingI had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest.
In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
Stichwörter: science-fiction computer google
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Stephen KingStichwörter: dreams brevity sweet brief
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.
“Sorry, clumsy,” she says.
“You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits.”
Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that’s too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man …
She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her – I always did. “Who are you, George?”
“Someone you knew in another life, honey.
Stichwörter: lost-love time-travel deja-vu
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"
He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?
Stichwörter: time-travel
Сърцата могат да се счупят. Да. Сърцата могат да се счупят. Понякога си мисля, че би било добре, ако можехме да умрем, когато те се счупеха, но не умираме.
Stephen KingThe past is obdurate.
Stephen KingStichwörter: time-travel
I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse
Stephen KingStichwörter: mr-jingles
Двамата получиха второ предупреждение, тогава седнаха със скръстени крака на асфалта и потънаха в задушевен разговор. И това беше най-странното, помисли си Гарати докато минаваха край тях, защото Скрам и Майк не говореха на един и същ език.
Stephen KingEven the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.
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