First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life__h, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for consciousness.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, __f my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.