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Slow Days, Fast Company – Eve Babitz
The trouble was that the men who cast her thought she was beautiful, so they put her into wistful, dreamy dresses when they should have handed her a whip and got out of the way. Continue reading
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The Anomaly – Herve Le Tellier
Someone somewhere in the galaxy has tossed a coin, and it really has stayed suspended in the air. Continue reading
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Hyperion – Dan Simmons
Then it moved… or, rather, it did not move but ceased being there and was here, leaning less than a meter from me, its oddly jointed arms encircling me in a fence of body-blades and liquid silver steel. Continue reading
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TRANSFORMED: Moving to the Product Operating Model – Marty Cagan
This point directly relates to the transformation evangelism discussed in Chapter 33. Continue reading
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Confessions of a Mask – Yukio Mishima
A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the emergency bandages that save his life be clean. Continue reading
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Therese Desqueyroux – Francois Mauriac
Therese, very soon, would be one of the herd of those who have served their purpose. Continue reading
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A Dill Pickle – Katherine Mansfield
And because her heritage was that tragic optimism, which is all too often only the inheritance of youth, still half asleep, she smiled, with a little nervous tremor round her mouth. Continue reading
