Sublime

“Oh, that’s an understatement if I ever heard one. Schopenhauer said—” “Schopenhauer? I take back every nice thing I’ve ever said about you, Linus. You are banished from the island. Leave immediately.” “He had some very pointed critiques! And he did so only to further validate Kant’s work!”

One student turned her Censor into a nasty negative relative, Aunt Vicky. “There she goes again,” the student would exclaim whenever the Censor piped up.

he is morose, gloomy, proud and haughty, and of late — and perhaps for a long time before — he has been suspicious and fanciful. He has a noble nature and a kind heart. He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. Sometimes, though, he is not at all morbid, but simply cold and inhumanly callous

Then he began: “You pig, I have been watching you the whole time! I’ll teach you to work, yet! Wait till you dig dirt with your teeth—you’ll die like an animal! In two days I’ll finish you off! You’ve never done a stroke of work in your life. What were you, swine? A businessman?” I was past caring. But I had to take his threat of killing me serious

"Do you want the good news or the bad news?" "Cyrus, I hate when people say that. Just hit me with whatever you got."

All of these relationships apparently took place in sixth grade. Extramask shook his head sadly. It was hard to tell whether he was consciously being funny or not. The next arrival was a tanned, balding man in his forties who’d flown in from Australia just to attend the workshop. He had a ten-thousand-dollar Rolex, a charming accent, and one of the

A 2021 study found that more than 80 percent of US doctors believed that people with significant disabilities “have worse quality of life than nondisabled people”—a figure grossly out of step with the attitudes of many disabled people.