Sublime

than she was, by three or four years, perhaps; and she had hair of a colour Ama had never seen before – a tawny fairness like a lion’s.

The title of Dewey’s first lecture in China was “Democratic Developments in America.” More than a thousand attended, and soon the American was being hailed as a “second Confucius.”

When humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.

Then another guy appeared, much much younger and much much bigger, half a head taller even than Gyuri, Malaysian or Indonesian with a face tattoo and eyepopping diamonds in his ears and a black topknot on the crown of his head that made him look like one of the harpooners from Moby Dick, if one of the harpooners from Moby Dick had happened to be we