New Non-Fiction
Jan. 29th, 2003 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tzikehActually, most of this isn't new or even newish, but Susan Werner's latest cd is called "New Non-Fiction", and I thought it would be a good title for this post.
1) Egypt has been called the Gift of the Nile. -- Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
2) The police in the small town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, worried briefly in 1974 about a man seen prowling in the dark, night after night, the red glow of his cigarette floating along the back streets. -- James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
3) The subject is that part of the sentence about which something is divulged; it is what the sentence's other words are gossiping about. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
4) Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, came to power in 1740. -- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
5) They came to Boston from as far away as London and Los Angeles, several dozen middle-aged men, reuniting for a fall weekend in 1994 to celebrate what they had done twenty-five years earlier. -- Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
6) In the Very Beginning there was a void -- a curious form of vacuum -- a nothingness containing no space, no time, no matter, no light, no sound. -- Leon Lederman, The God Particle - If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?
7) In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. -- David McCullough, John Adams
8) This two-year course in physics is presented from the point of view that you, the reader, are going to be a physicist. -- Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces
9) Two incidents from my childhood greatly enriched my understanding of the world and sent me on a course to become a theoretical physicist. -- Michio Kaku, Hyperspace
10) I am blasting right out of the gate with a test of physical endurance and agility: I'm watching seven films from the front row of the theater. -- Kevin Murphy, A Year At the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey
Er, yes, I like theoretical physics; why do you ask?
1) Egypt has been called the Gift of the Nile. -- Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
2) The police in the small town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, worried briefly in 1974 about a man seen prowling in the dark, night after night, the red glow of his cigarette floating along the back streets. -- James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
3) The subject is that part of the sentence about which something is divulged; it is what the sentence's other words are gossiping about. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
4) Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, came to power in 1740. -- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
5) They came to Boston from as far away as London and Los Angeles, several dozen middle-aged men, reuniting for a fall weekend in 1994 to celebrate what they had done twenty-five years earlier. -- Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
6) In the Very Beginning there was a void -- a curious form of vacuum -- a nothingness containing no space, no time, no matter, no light, no sound. -- Leon Lederman, The God Particle - If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?
7) In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. -- David McCullough, John Adams
8) This two-year course in physics is presented from the point of view that you, the reader, are going to be a physicist. -- Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces
9) Two incidents from my childhood greatly enriched my understanding of the world and sent me on a course to become a theoretical physicist. -- Michio Kaku, Hyperspace
10) I am blasting right out of the gate with a test of physical endurance and agility: I'm watching seven films from the front row of the theater. -- Kevin Murphy, A Year At the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey
Er, yes, I like theoretical physics; why do you ask?
