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“Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.”

Light Night Sound Existence Heat Lightning

Book:Rise of Endymion

Source: Rise of Endymion

“Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.”

Father Grows Sound Sleep Heat Vacuums Cleaners Snoring

Book:Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

Source: Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

“For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.”

Want Light Sound Speed Heat Loved Ones Blast Speed Of Light

Book:Einstein's Monsters

Source: Einstein's Monsters

“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”