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“Summoned by Congress that November to testify about use of the bombs on Japan and their after-effects, the [General Groves] eventually conceded that radiation had been responsible for some of the deaths in the atomic cities, but informed the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy that doctors had assured him that radiation poisoning “is a very pleasant way to die.”

“Summoning my inner Kojak, I tried to convince myself that she would have sat next to me even had there been somewhere else on the bus to sit. Unfortunately, I didn't do a very good job of self-persuasion. Good thing I wasn't in court suing myself, because I would have lost. From: "My Best Valentine's Day.Ever: A Short Story”

“Sumone Yiden Smiff was a businessman of note. Was, past tense. Through years of sweat and swearing and amazingly smart (or lucky) deals he’d built up a mining empire that spanned the sum of known space. At 74 years, he had reached the apex of a career stretching half a century. His companies mined precious commodities like Impervium, Obstinatium and Bitanium. He wasn’t really famous, or ostentatious. In fact he only ever made the cover of Fortune One Billion once, twenty-five years ago. He’d never married, had lots of children – light-years apart, apparently.”

“SUMUKO ka. Pero hindi ibig sabihin nun titigil ka. Ang pagsuko ay ang pag-alam sa tunay at dalisay na takbo at hangarin ng iyong buhay. Hubaran mo ang iyong pagkatao, katulad ng mga panahong wala ka pang muwang sa mundo. Burahin mo ang bawat katotohanang ikinintal at pilit ipinaintindi ng magulong umiinog na globo. Magsimula ka sa wala. SUMUKO ka, kapara ng unang pagkakataon na HUBAD at BATA ka pa. Nang sa gayun makita mo, kung SINO ka ngang talaga.”

“Sumulat ako ng plano sa eroplanong papel. Pinalipad ko ito, pero bumagsak lang sa sahig. Pinulot ko ulit, pinalipad sa himpapawid. Alam kong babagsak lang sya sa sahig. Kaya hindi na masakit. Duon ko naisip na kahit ilang beses man syang bumagsak sa sahig. Nakalipad sya,kahit na sandali. Nag bigay ng kasiyahan sa aking mga mata. Sinabayan ng kaunting ngiti, sa aking labi. Napagod ako at nilukot ang eroplanong papel. Subalit ang plano ay nakalagay na sa pag-iisip. Ang tanging masasabi ko lang salamat Paginoon. Dahil binigyan ninyo kami ng papel sa napakagandang mundong ito. -Aron Micko”

“Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas, Cut off from my family I leave my native land. Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison, With heated heart arouse all women's spirits. Alas, this delicate kerchief here Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.”

“Sun and sea air could not burn his skin, it was the same creamy marble hue as at first—though he did look a little pale, either from the cold or in the bluish moonlight of the arc-lamps. The shapely brows were so delicately drawn, the eyes so deeply dark—lovelier he was than words could say, and as often the thought visited Aschenbach, and brought its own pang, that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.”

“Sun is very distinct through the eclipse. You go from bright sunlight to twilight in a matter of 10 seconds. And everybody around you will start screaming like the home team just made a touchdown at the Super Bowl. It will be unmistakable when it's safe. Plus, if you're looking through the eclipse glasses, the crescent sun will get thinner and thinner and thinner, and then it will vanish. Then it's totality, and it's safe to look.”