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  -- Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities" ======================================================================= He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him....
• She did not seduce, she ravished. -- George Meredith, Diana of the Crossway
• Sabina proceeded with her melancholy musings: What if she had a man who ordered her about?
  A man who wanted to master her? How long would she put up with him?...
• When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able
  for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with him to the station?...
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• At about 2500 A.D., humankind discovers a computer problem that *must* be solved.
  The only difficulty is that the problem is NP complete and will take thousands of years even with the latest optical biologic technology available....
• She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii...
• And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd.
  My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sigh...
• Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to PUNT.