(In an attempt to make a learned joke, I once looked up the names of people possibly crushed to death by bookcasesthe Basra-born polymath Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr ibn Mahbub al-Kinani al-Fuqaymi al-Basri al-Jahiz, the French virtuoso Charles-Valentin Alkanbut I never worked up the courage to tease, terrified that Klaus would generously ask my thoughts on Mutazilism, perpetuum mobile , or the topics of numerous other links pointing outward from these figures
We do not use colors to communicate whether one product is less harmful or more harmful than another. In a letter to the F.D.A
The original columns, with their glass decorations have been too damaged by building them over into square columns for the originals to be restored, but new ones would be built over the top of the old and painted to the original colours
Hoffman I, The Changing Cigarette, 19501995
American magazine advertisement, 1951
What that what I was thinking when I lit up