“However, he either could growl without meaning, like a monster, or stay silent and keep his ideas to himself.”

“Bruce worked very hard on an obscure document about prophecy and how some people could experience events that were later realized. Scientists did not find any rational explanation for this but often called it a process of intuitive repetition. Bruce also read about second thoughts, often quite unlike the original. They came to some people like a flash, in the middle of the night. Finally, he read a combination of intuitive repetitions and that blazing nights could, as the result of revelation, find of great importance. He read that it was one of those big inventors’ ways of approaching a new unknown. These were difficult concepts to understand, and Bruce fell asleep while reading.”

“Sunday was a day when players could not dispatch their doubles. Instead, clones went to the garage, where they studied educational ...”

“All parts of his body, the circuit and flesh, required rest. Not that anything had gone wrong.”

“Fred prepared a board game he had created for the entire family to play. And they did.”

“Heat and dryness frightens me, like skeletal shapes of war, two of them look doomed and challenge the peace blazing.”

“Was it two or one dead face? Would you notice that at last? We are together and alone, until the firm and angry blast.”