Monday, 30 April 2018

Because sarcasm doesn't convey in unspoken text


"I learn that ten percent of all the world's species are parasitic insects. It is hard to believe. What if you were an inventor, and you made ten percent of your inventions in such a way that they could only work by harnessing, disfiguring, or totally destroying the other ninety percent?"

Annie Dillard, author (b. 1945)
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