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Gil checked the listings in Time Out. He had saved up a list of films that he wanted to see for the first time in New York (Jules et Jim; Breathless; Battleship Potemkin; La Dolce Vita; Bicycle Thieves; The Leopard; all of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, because if there is a season you want to be able t…

The robot pointed out pleasantly, dispassionately, that it would, certainly, be political suicide for a legislator to attempt to introduce an aleatory element into the allocation of minors

Peter said, Please.

He tried to think of the sort of thing Americans say.

He said, It would mean a lot to me to work with someone who admired Bertrand Russell.

He said, It would really mean a lot to me.

The statement seemed, if not meaningless, then uselessly imprecise.

(The first bo…

Jim had ordered something or other. He had exchanged badinage with the waitress.

It hung on its hanger, this baleful garment that no one would ever wear because of the hatefulness of the cloth and the cut and the straps and the stitching