this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl.

Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

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