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Letter "S" » simulation
«Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
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Keywords:
by fits and starts,
contingencies,
contingency,
deceptive,
embraces,
fits,
fragmentation,
insists,
rehearse,
rehearsed,
rehearses,
rehearsing,
simulation,
simulations,
the novel
«Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.»
«OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word _simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) --the ape that howls.The actor apes a man --at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape.»
«What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.»
Author: Dave Barry
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Humorist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
assume,
asteroid,
big,
common,
frog,
hammer,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
happens,
hits,
involving,
judging,
laboratories,
laboratory,
pretty,
realistic,
simulation,
simulations,
sledge,
The Frogs
«Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.»