From 7aaf834a401eeddf2b08e4d4bdcaea3e549f2788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Silvio Rhatto Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:15:59 -0200 Subject: Books: cyberiad and perfect spy --- books/cyberiad.mdwn | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ books/perfect-spy.mdwn | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+) create mode 100644 books/cyberiad.mdwn create mode 100644 books/perfect-spy.mdwn (limited to 'books') diff --git a/books/cyberiad.mdwn b/books/cyberiad.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..753cb68 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/cyberiad.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[!meta title="The Cyberiad"]] + +## Trechos + +--- + + Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, + And every vector dreams of matrices. + Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: + It whispers of a more ergodic zone. + -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad" + +--- + + Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, + Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, + Their indices bedecked from one to n, + Commingled in an endless Markov chain! + + Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, + And every vector dreams of matrices. + Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: + It whispers of a more ergodic zone. + + In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space + Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. + Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, + We shall encounter, counting, face to face. + -- The Cyberiad diff --git a/books/perfect-spy.mdwn b/books/perfect-spy.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6cec070 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/perfect-spy.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +[[!meta title="A Perfect Spy"]] + +## Trechos + +--- + + A society that admires its shock troops had batter be bloody careful about where it's going. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + Intelligence is nothing if not an institutionalised black market in perishable commodities. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + Military intelligence has about as much to do with intelligence as military music has to do + with music. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + When two people have decided to go to bed with each other, what passes between them before + the event is a matter of form rather than of content. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + Hell, Jack, we're licensed crooks, that's all I'm saying. What's our racket? Know what our racket is? + It is to place our larcenous natures at the service of the state. So I mean why should I feel different + about Magnus just because maybe he go the mix a little wrong? I can't. + -- A Perfect Spy -- cgit v1.2.3