Unk had no way of judging the quality of the information contained in the letter. He accepted it all hungrily, uncritically. And, in accepting it, Unk gained an understanding of life that was identical with the writer's understanding of life. Unk wolfed down a philosophy.
("The Sirens of Titan")
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But doing that job, surviving it, was like getting a Purple Heart. I wouldn't have missed it for anything.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land Man got to tell himself he understand.
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