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“Ha ha ha ha ha…” he laughed, pointing at the Wallbreaker. “Superman! Ha ha ha ha. I remember now. That … that old Superman. He could fly, and he could reverse the rotation of the Earth, but when he was riding a horse … ha ha ha ha … when he was riding a horse, he fell and broke his neck … ah ha ha ha…” “It was Christopher Reeve, the actor who play
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Besides, even if you had done the research, we wouldn’t expect you to come up with results any more valuable than any other researcher.” “And why is that?” “Dr. Luo, we’re speaking frankly here. As I understand it, you’re a failure of a scholar. You perform research not out of any thirst for exploration, nor out of a sense of duty and mission, but
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Due to his ear and his almost maniacal sense of discipline, I always thought my father would have made an excellent musician. He might have studied the saxophone had he not been born to immigrant parents who considered even pot holders an extravagance. They themselves listened only to Greek music, an oxymoron as far as the rest of the world is conc
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Even the dogs were the same long-haired, short-legged parasites found in the cities.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Luo Ji immediately recognized the slender figure standing on the porch in the rain, even though he could only see a silhouette. “Hello, Dr. Luo,” Secretary General Say said. “Hello … Where are my wife and child?” “They’re waiting for you at doomsday,” she said, repeating the words in the painting. “Why?” “This is a PDC resolution, to let you work a
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The man who had been Malachi Constant, who had been Unk, who had been the Space Wanderer, the man who was Malachi Constant again—that man felt very little upon being declared Malachi Constant again.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
The lives of ordinary people continued and ended as well. Out of the three old Beijing neighbors, Miao Fuquan was the first to depart, passing away at the age of seventy-five. He really did have his son bury him two hundred meters down an abandoned mine, and his son obeyed his last wishes to blow up the mine wall and erect a tombstone to remember h
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“I’m afraid there won’t be that opportunity.… In that case, you might as well just forget I said anything. Either way, I’ve fulfilled my duty. Well, Xiao Luo, I’ve got to go.” “Take care, Professor.”