Marlow’s Listener

The shock of the old

The difference between an illustrator and a geometry teacher is that the geometry teacher believes there are only three angles in a triangle.

This is a paper I wrote as a joke about 2 years ago and sadly will be the most successful thing I ever write.

since the Panthéon is the ‘Académie française for dead people,’ these days Camus is surely both ’sufficiently academic and sufficiently dead to repose there

Of course, a small automobile would only be useful for the mites to drive around in, and I suppose our Christian interests don’t go that far.

For good or ill, it was as though he had driven round to your house and emptied a ton of bricks in the drive.

the Aptera 2e, a machine that looks like a cross between a Cessna plane and a tricycle

futurologists—that is, people who specialise in being wrong about the future instead of the present