完美的梦想永远是梦想
躺下来做梦，就会成为梦想家。
但是要真的成为梦想家，
就必须时时刻刻保持清醒。…
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015
The Only Way to the Infinite Mattering
Colin knew nothing about poker except that it was a game of human behavior and probability, and therefore the kind of quasi-closed system in which a Theorem similar to the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability ought to work. And when…
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Your Missing Pieces Never Fit Inside You Again Once They Go Missing
"That's what I was thinking about before you came. I was thinking about your mattering business. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got…
I'm Going to Start Doing
Hollis and Lindsey ended up riding home together, leaving Colin and Hassan alone in the Hearse. They weren’t five miles outside of Memphis when Hassan said, "I had a, um, blinding light spiritual awakening."
Colin glanced at him. "Huh?"…
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Why Does Everything Have to be Funny
"Tell us a story about the old days in Gutshot," Lindsey said, and it became clear to Colin that this was not an occasion to be asking Hollis's four questions.
"I've been thinking on Dr. Dinzanfar. Before he started that tactilery, he owned…
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Popularity is Complicated
"Um, why are we going out for dinner together?"
"Well, three reasons. First, because I've been thinking about our Theorem and I have a question. How does it work if you're g*y?"
"Huh?"
"Well it's all graph-going-up means boy dumps…
Saturday, May 16, 2015
How Something That isn't There Can Hurt You
He remained convinced that romantic behavior was basically monotonous and predictable, and that therefore one could write a fairly straightforward formula that would predict the collision course of any two people. But he was worried that he might…
But It Never Stops Hurting
And yet, that's what happened. It didn't seem willful at first — it was just a series of odd coincidences. It just kept happening: he'd meet a Katherine, and like her. She'd like him back. And then it would end. And then, after it ceased being…
Finding Pleasure in Others' Pain
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. It was so quiet then that he could hear Princess breathing, and he felt the missing piece inside him. "I just want to do something that matters. Or be…
She Never Liked Me Much, But She Sure Loved Me
"Mary and I got married in 1944," Starnes went on, "when I was supposed to go off to the war." And Colin thought that Starnes might benefit from a lesson from his eleventh-grade English teacher Mr. Holtsclaw, who taught them about transitions.…
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Why He Couldn't Tell Good Stories
When you spend your entire life in and around the city of Chicago, as it turns out, you fail to fully apprehend certain facets of rural life. Take, for example, the troubling case of the rooster. To Colin's mind, the rooster crowing at dawn was…
Terse People
The moment Colin sat down, Hollis asked Hassan, “Would you like to say grace?”
“Sure thing.” Hassan cleared his throat. “Bismillah.” Then he picked up his fork.
“That’s it?” Hollis wondered.
“That’s it. We are a terse people. Terse,…
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Don't Have A Right to go and Think Anything Odd
“Have I mentioned today that you should go to college?” Colin asked.
Hassan rolled his eyes. "Right, I know. I mean, just look where academic excellence got you."
Colin couldn’t think of a comeback. "Well, but you should this year.…
The Echo of His Character and Passions, His Mistakes and Weaknesses
“Maybe we don’t need to see the Archduke,” said Hassan.
“We’re on a road trip. It’s about adventure,” Colin mimicked.
“Do you think the people of Gutshot, Tennessee, have ever seen an actual, living Arab?”
“Oh, don’t be so paranoid.”…
Unfortunate Majority
…… As Colin had explained to Hassan countless times, there's a stark difference between the words prodigy and genius .
Prodigies cn very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has…
It's in the Job Description
"I wanna have a Eureka moment ," he said, the way another kid might have expressed longing for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
She pressed the back of her hand to his cheek and smiled, her face so closed to his that he could smell coffee…
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Saturday, May 2, 2015
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