“It's a lady with a stick. Are we pirates or what?" They pondered this fact for a moment."It's a big stick," observed one of his fellows.”
“A stick is not only wood but the negation of wood. It is the meeting in space of wood and no-wood. A stick is finite and unextended wood, a fact determined by its own denial.”
“Yeah, it's a kodak moment. Quick, take a picture.Sarah scoffs. I stick my tongue out at her.”
“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”
“So what, we get in a big ring and poke each other with sticks while alien lizard men look on?”