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"...we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years."

" '...Are you afraid?'

'Not me,' said Johnny. 'I come here for the cartoons.'

'Ah, yes, the cartoons. The implications are serious,' sighed the White Knight. 'We have entered a post-literary world. We cannot record detail: There is too much. We must resort to diagram and algorithm.'

Johnny nodded politely.

'In the cartoon, we abandon the Quattrocento. We no longer peer through the lens of Alberti. We no longer experience story as a dream, centered on the self. The frame is decentered, the illusion of "realistic" depth is eliminated.' " --Gwyneth Jones, White Queen (1991)

Allez Vous En (Go Away).

"Men are, in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions these inventions create." --John Galsworthy

Wheels.