nobody tells you these things

"The fact was, if you paid attention, people tried to persuade each other all the time. It was all they did." --Max Barry, Lexicon (2013)

"Hammett and Chandler & Cain have always seemed like an allegorical Renaissance figure with three faces."

It's as if the Martians had really landed like in H G Wells--& all humans could do was argue about whether or not it was real.

(pic by Scott Olson via Neetzan Zimmerman on twitter)