I Learned Very Early On In Life

What People Don't Appreciate, When They Picture Terminator-style Automatons Striding Triumphantly Across A Mountain Of Human Skulls, Is How Hard It Is To Keep Your Footing On Something As Unstable As A Mountain Of Human Skulls. Most Humans Probably Couldn't Manage It, And They've Had A Lifetime Of Practice At Walking Without Falling Over.

A Million People Can Call The Mountains A Fiction, Yet It Need Not Trouble You As You Stand Atop Them.

But I’ve Never Seen The Icarus Story As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Humans. I See It As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Wax As An Adhesive.

The Explosion Would Be Just The Right Size To Maximize The Amount Of Paperwork Your Lab Would Face. If The Explosion Were Smaller, You Could Potentially Cover It Up. If It Were Larger, There Would Be No One Left In The City To Submit Paperwork To.

I'm Not Sure Why We Romanticize 'young Love,' Or Love In General...it Just Leads To The Idea That Either Your Love Is Pure, Perfect And Eternal, And You Are Storybook-compatible In Every Way With No Problems, Or You're Lying When You Say 'i Love You.