Contents ( 65)
- DR. NO
- DR. NO
- DR. NO
- Existential quantifier
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- Miami
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- Corsica
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- A bijective function
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- For all y such that
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- A distinction between names and other words
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- Chasing two rabbits
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- Humpty Dumpty’s extreme practice
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- Begriff und Gegenstand
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- Biblical proportions and the fifth postulate
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- Il n’y a pas de hors-texte
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“Just Chris.”
“How disappointing.” He turned to Xue. “And you? Ready for nothing to happen? You come from a country of a billion people. Busy, busy, busy. Ready for nothing? And you, German guy. How do you people get through a sentence with words so long? What is it again? Bunderchristinatoilet? Are you ready?”
“There is something in that box,” I said.
“That’s right, Wala, that something is nothing.”
“Not nothing,” I said.
“And I say it’s not not nothing, which makes it nothing. But we could do this all day.” He looked at each one of us in turn. I was last. “Let’s find out.”
Sill pulled the string and the bow came slowly undone. The string ends fell away, seemed to float through the air. He grabbed the lid of the box, paused there, took a deep breath. In fact, I could hear all of us breathing. I looked at Eigen. She was shaking. I realized that I was, too. Sill removed the lid.
Nothing happened.
God help us. Nothing happened.
PERCIVAL EVERETT is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of over thirty books, including The Trees, Telephone, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and Erasure.
The text of Dr. No is set in Dante MT Pro.
Book design by Rachel Holscher.
Composition by Bookmobile Design and Digital
Publisher Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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