A simple quote to Mark Twain

21 January, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain

Alice felt dreadfully

17 January, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

No doubt, for he is carrying an enormous sum in brand new banknotes with him. And he doesn’t spare the money on the way, either: he has offered a large reward to the engineer of the Mongolia if he gets us to Bombay well in advance of time.

The respectable

14 January, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

No one in Weybridge could tell us where the headquarters were established; the whole place was in such confusion as I had never seen in any town before. Carts, carriages everywhere, the most astonishing miscellany of conveyances and horseflesh.

I too sat down, laying the spear between us

11 January, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

I and the artilleryman, seated on the step of the drinking fountain, made a very passable meal upon what we had brought with us. Patrols of soldiers–here no longer hussars, but grenadiers in white.

Then a door opened at the far side of the chamber

8 January, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

The building in which I found myself contained the machinery which produces that artificial atmosphere which sustains life on Mars. The secret of the entire process hinges on the use of the ninth ray, one of the beautiful scintillations which I had noted emanating from the great stone in my host’s diadem.