quotes at random no.46 - here and there

On a blanket from Taiwan - NOT TO BE USED AS PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO.

'Asking her to leave her noisy anklets behind, and go'

Penguins have a strange ritual - from generation to generation they go on peligrimage - sometimes for as long as two months - so that just to reach this place, stay there for sometimes for just a few hours and go back to their usual places of living.

The coast along Porto Santo Stefano has a sweet, subtle stir.

The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time, and they forced a uniform time on the country... The last major holdout was the legal system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years,

Because in those 12 cubic meters there would never be a fault or a flaw. If the sculptor wanted to make a fold a meter long, he could do it... The crystal structure of marble is absolutely pure and even. It's the most homogeneous natural material in the world.

When told to take “three steps east” or “bend southwest,” he didn’t know what to do. The boy would not have had the least trouble with these directions in his own village, but because the landscape in the new village was entirely unfamiliar, he became disoriented and confused. A Guugu Yimithirr speaker points through himself, as if he were thin air and his own existence were irrelevant.

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