Secret Agent

WIFE: See you at dinner, Johnny. We're very informal.

JOHN DRAKE: Until dinner, then.
[JOHN LEAVES]

HUSBAND: I would have thought you'd learned your lesson with Andrews.

WIFE: Of course, darling. Didn't you?

New Orbit

First love soars rocket-like through virgin space

In whose calm distance no one ever hurled

A mighty missile that would change the face

And outlines of the total outer world.


A boy and girl are there in the beginning,

Untouched, unsure, and yet prepared to try

That rarer atmosphere beyond the spinning

Earth in a dark immensity of sky.


Propelled by violent and split reaction

Of forces stronger than they ever knew

High into heavens, they attain a fraction

Of universal knowledge, vast and true.


Surpassing minor moons, their love gains speed

To reach the most distant star of mutual need.



--Anne Marx

Streetwise Logic

We can't insulate from false views, so we learn to see the ways in which they are false..

Prior Implication

To pursue wisdom, one must already be somewhat wise.

Chance & Illusion

In spite of some appearances, discoveries are never made by chance.

Brand Blanshard

D Generation

A great way to degenerate and corrupt people would be to get them to waste as much time as possible on passive forms of amusement and other ways of just getting the time to go by as quickly as possible.

Metalogical Moment

Inference assumes a universal necessity across objects.