| | And now, from
the author of Sphere...
CUBE
He beomes aware of something else... some other presence.
"Anybody here?" he says.
I am here.
He almost jumps, it is so loud. Or it seems loud. Then he wonders if he has heard anything at all.
"Did you speak?"
No.
How are we communicating? he wonders.
The way everything communicates with everything else.
Which way is that?
Why do you ask if you already know the answer?
-- Sphere, by Michael Crichton, Harvard '64
"... when I went to Princeton things were
completely different. This chapel, for instance-- I remember when it was
just a clearing, cordoned off with sharp sticks. Prayer was compulsory
back then, and you couldn't just fake it by moving your lips; you had
to know the words, and really mean them. I'm dating myself, but this
was before Jesus Christ."
-- Baccalaureate address at Princeton, Pentecost 2006, reprinted in The New Yorker, edited by David Remnick, Princeton '81
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