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“… “editor” explains how a fat curate of his acquaintance had used torn pages from a small memorandum book as wadding paper while hunting; the few surviving pages of that memorandum, representing the scattered observations of an eccentric parishioner, make up…”

“It’s so famous, so prominent, so dominating, that the novel I think is the best war novel ever written can only point back at it from a ‘see also’ link on Wikipedia.”

“But in the free-market USA, independent actors from the broadcasters to the television retailers to the FCC had to somehow agree on technical standards, all the while hoping that the results were sufficient to turn a profit once offered to consumers.”

“…, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the…”

“They would spend the next five months on a cramped ship sailing to a foreign land of strange people, full of “destitution, degradation, and barbarism.””

“It’s their gift to us, crafted not from atoms, but from bits.”

“When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked] Holocaust stories, both true and fictional, tend to repeat the same few clichés over and over.”