“What is the meaning of this gross outrage?”
“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.”
“I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.”
“I’m interested in [meteorology], but I’m more interested in gross misappropriations of the authoritative language of science. It feels rife with clarity, and yet you don’t understand what it means. And I think that’s beautiful.”
“I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis”
“Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs a gross if we are, about to believe.”