Charlie Jane Anders - 01 - Six Months, Three Days by Hugo 2012 Nominee Novelette

Author:Hugo 2012 Nominee Novelette
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-04-24T09:18:15+00:00

“I am going to give you the Samuel Johnson/Bishop Berkeley lecture, for like the tenth time,” Marva says. “Because sometimes, a girl just needs a little Johnson.”

Bishop George Berkeley, of course, was the “if a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound” guy, who argued that objects only exist in our perceptions. One day, Boswell asked Samuel Johnson what he thought of Berkeley’s idea. According to Boswell, Johnson’s response to this was to kick a big rock “with mighty force,” saying, “I refute it thus.”

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