I bent my head for Kausalya to put on the fourteen-stringed meenakari gold necklace.

Cora's dazed stare followed them to earth and returned to Bradly, still unable to visualize him as a pauper. Bradly, having done with pretences and illusions, now dispiritedly accepted the inevitable.

Judy Mills: Oh, and I was very excited to hear about your agency's new emphasis on hard numbers and data. Simon: Excuse me? Judy Mills: Yeah, I heard you hired a quant.

None of these papers had much chance of getting past a journal referee. Few of the writers had much hope of even getting into graduate school. They may not have wanted to. The letters were mostly a cri de cœur from isolated and solitary physicists manqués all over the world.