Word: helling
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Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and renowned expert on eternal suffering, once observed: “Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness in which there is no love.” He forgot about the Morse Media Room and the jejune dioramas discussing the relationship between music and math. I mean to say without equivocation that Lamont Library is the worst place I have ever been, or could ever conceive of visiting...
Wally Schirra once told Chris Kraft to go to hell. Remember the astronaut, who died this week at 84, for a lot of things, but put that particular bit of courage near the top of your list. Nobody, up until that moment, had ever told Kraft to go to hell, and the fact is, Schirra didn't tell him directly either. What he did do was tell Deke Slayton, the head of the astronaut corps, and he knew Slayton would tell Kraft, the director of all of the manned missions. Even when you're calling down your imprecation from...
...told me to go to hell...
...days is like getting on a bus--without the glamour. Meals have been reduced to peanuts and soda, pillows plucked from under our heads, the warmth of flying gone with the blankets. The industry's perennial woes--high fuel, labor and capital costs--have led to a traveler's hell of airport fees, climbing fares, flight delays and abysmal service...
...have worked themselves into an impossible ecological niche. They eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and then, depending upon their appetite at the moment, only certain varieties. If the right kind of bamboo is unavailable, they will starve to death. If ever there was an example of a species hell-bent on committing suicide, it is the giant panda. In keeping with the Darwinian concept of survival of the fittest, we should allow them...