Normal People (2)

  • Three Month Later
    It's easy for them to have opinions, and to express them with confidence. They don't worry about appearing ignorant or conceited. They are not stupid people, but they're not so much smarter than hi...
  • Seven Months Later
    All these years they've been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting to make room, taking certain unlikely positions. But in the end she has don...

Norse Mythology (2)

  • Before the beginning, and after.
    And the clouds you see by day? These were once Ymir's brains, and who knows what thoughts they are thinking, even now. 巨人被Odin杀了之后脑子变成了云彩， pretty ironic eh. We are such stuff as drea...
  • Before the beginning, and after
    To the north was Niflheim, the dark world. Here eleven poisonous rivers cut through the mist, each springing from the same well at the centre of it all, the roaring maelstrom called Hvergelmir. Nif...

Good Omens (11) 更多

  • The End
    If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot...no, imagine a sneaker, laces trai...
  • 232
    The other one, the swish southern bastard in the sunglasses, was - Shadwell suspected -not someone he ought to offend. In Shadowell's simple world, anyone in sunglasses who wasn't actually on a bea...
  • 230
    But the idea of Agnes's second-sight boring into the back of his neck sloshed over his libido like a bucket of cold water.
  • 194
    it had been programmed by someone who not only didn't understand English, but didn't understand Japanese either. It was state of the art, he said. The art in this case was probably pottery. hahaha,...
  • 193
    It would be a very accurate historian who could pinpoint the precise day when the Japanese changed from being fiendish automatons who copied everything from the West, to becoming skilled and cunnin...
  • Saturday
    。。。landed on the rainbow-slicked water, and sank without trace. Here's the Uck, used to be the prettiest river in this part of the world, and now it's just a glorified industrial sewer. The swan...
  • Saturday
    He'd done that with Maud, his missus, before they were married. They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork. 最后一个fork看笑了，哈哈哈，口音杠杠的
  • Saturday
    ‘shouldn't be allowed, bloody lorries, no respect for other road users, what I always say, what I always say, is remember that without a car, son, you're just a pedestrian too...' 这个铺垫得太好了
  • Crowley trying to tempt Aziraphale to stop it from happening
    'And then Game Over, Insert Coin?' said Crowley. 'Sometimes I find your methods of expression a little difficult to follow.' Aziraphale正在一本正经地讲The Great Final Test, Flaming Swords, The Four...
  • On St James's Park duck
    The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory ...
  • Eleven years ago
    One of his aids took the calculation further, and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth was created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004 BC, at exactly 9.00 a.m., because God liked to get...

Timefulness (1)

52 Things You Should Know about Geophysics (1)

  • 第73页 See the big picture
    We have never before been in an era of such super-specialization. Brian Russell 在这篇不到两页的短文里提到了两次era of super-specialization。作为Hampson-Russell的创始人之一，经历了70，80年代石油勘...
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