It felt as though the first few mouthfuls were absorbed straight into the hard dry sponge of my tongue. I didn't wake up as such-my disease just got this new open-eyed, standing-up symptom.

There was no emergence from darkness, there was no jolt into consciousness.

'Waking is the wrong word for what I did that morning.(Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, 1938) No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken, let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.' 'The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again.It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.' 'Genius is not perfected, it is deepened.(Martin Luther King, Jr., 'The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness,' September 6, 1960) 'This is no day to pay mere lip service to integration we must pay life service to it.'.You lead by going to that place and making a case.' 'You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go.

(John Dos Passos, The New York Times, Oct.

'People don't choose their careers they are engulfed by them.'.

White, The New Yorker, November 11, 1961)

'During his happiest years, Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.'.

(Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890)

'The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.'.

(John Cleese, 'The Dead Parrot Sketch.' Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 8)

'It's not pining, it's passed on! This parrot is no more!'.

(Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Reflections and Remarks on Human Life.' Letters and Miscellanies, 1902)

'Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.'.

Le Guin, 'The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen.' The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. The worst walls are the ones you put there-you build yourself.'

'The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way.

(Max Lerner, quoted by Sanford Lakoff in Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land.

'The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.'.

(Brian Greene, 'Listening to the Big Bang.' Smithsonian, May 2014) It tells us how the universe evolved, beginning a tiny fraction of a second after it all started.'

'The Big Bang Theory does not tell us how the universe began.

Do them on your own, and then check them with these answers.(Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Beacon Press, 1967) Here are a few problems for you to practice working with positive and negative numbers. Therefore, -12/-4 = 3.ĭividing Positive and Negative Numbers Quiz Both the 12 and the 4 are negative, so we know our answer is going to be positive. So, for example, we may have the problem -12/-4. Rule 3: A negative number divided by a negative number gives you a positive number.Įxample 3: This is also new-and doesn’t seem to make much sense, but it is a rule we have to follow when dividing negative numbers. The combination of one positive and one negative number, no matter which order they come in, means your answer is going to be negative. For example, you may see it written -12/3 = -4, but don’t get confused. Please note that this also works when the negative number comes first and the positive number is second. Thus, we divide the numbers as we normally would, and then put a negative sign in front of our answer. The 12 is positive, but the 3 is negative, so our answer has to be negative. Rule 2: A positive number divided by a negative number gives you a negative number.Įxample 2: This is new – for example, you might have 12/-3. We know that 12 and 3 are both positive because there are no negative signs in front of them. 12 is positive, 3 is positive, thus, 4 is positive. Rule 1: A positive number divided by a positive number gives you a positive number.Įxample 1: This is the kind of division you’ve been doing for years, positive numbers divided by positive numbers.

Negative plus negative example