topic,text
humor,"They were always leaping to light cigarettes, open car doors, fill plates or glasses, and I mistrusted the whole lot of them to the same degree that I mistrusted bake shops that called themselves   Sanitary Bake Shops ."
science_fiction,"No, the fish could eat their bodies for all the Sturch cared."
science_fiction,"Fighting pleasure itself, he begged B'dikkat to check the records and to tell him how long he had been there."
science_fiction,that is all I can tell you about them.
humor,"That's one thing I've never done  , she said promptly."
humor,"One day, the children had wanted to get up onto General Burnside's horse."
science_fiction,"Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve."
humor,"Now  , he said,   we got to put in some outlets for them power tools;;"
science_fiction,"At first I was homesick  , he answered."
science_fiction,Any other reaction would have been reported instantly.
humor,"Now we are leaving humor and comedy behind again  , Moreland protested."
science_fiction,Why do you have to jump me the first time something goes wrong??
humor,"And when they had got to their little lawn, they had had a most twirlingly magnificent time."
humor,"Dear Sirs : Let me begin by clearing up any possible misconception in your minds, wherever you are."
humor,"Not only was Haumd's intonation and phrasing without flaw, but he seemed to take every tonal eccentricity in stride."
science_fiction,"Somehow, all the other passengers ( also supposed to have died in this web of elaborate frauds to cover up the disappearance of the personnel of the Gabriel ) had simultaneously   agreed   to die."
science_fiction,Ekstrohm shouldered his way outside and scanned the veldt.
science_fiction,The woman covered with growing hands came and sat beside them.
humor,He's really asking for it .
science_fiction,Ekstrohm  ??
humor,"But now, under the guidance of the contemporary composer Marc Schlek, Jr., a major revival is under way."
science_fiction,"Sigmen love you, too, my guardian  , said Hal, choking."
science_fiction,"individually they are nearly as mortal as you -- the difference does not seem very marked to us, where it exists."
humor,"For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as   Wilhelmina  , and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina )."
humor,-- if that can be screamed in their language .
humor,The bodies must be cleaned and seats wiped off .
science_fiction,Any little dose of radiation might knock off these critters .
humor,"Still, there it is."
humor,"The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor."
science_fiction,"Besides, agreements   in principle  , with the petty details to be thrashed out later, were commonplace in diplomatic history."
humor,They were constantly assuring you that you were one of the world's great guys.
humor,Orders were given to dig.
science_fiction,His duty was to write a school text and to teach the entire personnel of the Gabriel how to speak Ozagen.
science_fiction,"Ryan, look over there  , Nogol said."
science_fiction,"Far long ago, some other prisoner than one of these had tried to write a letter."
humor,Why in the name of his non-God doesn't he vary it a bit  ??
humor,"In our present era of Science and Angst, the heart has been downgraded, to use one of our popular retrogressive verbs ."
science_fiction,Hal felt sorry for Mary;;
humor,But she was.
science_fiction,This explained a great deal.
science_fiction,"And there would be no chance of signaling them -- without the Nernst generator Jack could not send a call powerful enough to get through all the static, and by the time he could rebuild his fusion power the skiff would be gone."
humor,"In my estimation, they were people who read Daphne du Maurier, and discussed Kafka;;"
humor,He was very funny about the whole thing.
humor,As you can count on me to do the same.
science_fiction,"the Gabriel pointed towards her destination and, under one-gee acceleration, began to build up towards her ultimate velocity, 99.1 percent of the speed of light."
science_fiction,"We will gladly entertain your young and give them proper living quarters, in return for their help in running our fusion reactors."
science_fiction,The two women babbled and crooned at him.
humor,"Oh  , said the woman,   I've seen that picture already ."
science_fiction,He remembered the last time he had eaten -- actual eggs from an actual pan.
humor,"Speaking of nonism : the other day, in a story about a sit-down demonstration, the Paris Herald Tribune wrote, ' The non-violence became noisier."
humor,It almost always works out for the best.
humor,"When radio came in, it continued the misplaced modifier in its routines as a standard device."
science_fiction,He said sharply.
science_fiction,"I'll be damned  , Ekstrohm said."
humor,His dogs??
humor,That tap had a slight bangish quality.
science_fiction,"It was true that they could be approximated, but would the Ozagenians understand these approximations??"
science_fiction,"He rammed his mind into focus and said to the two ladies who lay pinkly nude beside him in the desert,   That was a good bite."
humor,"I was, it seemed, persona non grata in every quarter, but not entirely without a staunch following of noted political thinkers and students of jurisprudence."
humor,"In this work, his use of non-color is startling and skillful."
humor,"Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises."
humor,"His hubris, deficiency of taste, and sadism carried him straightaway to the top."
humor,But it was even funnier after they had been told.
humor,Moreland asked.
science_fiction,"Even to herself Helva sounded a little self-pitying but the truth was she was lonely, sitting on the darkened field."
science_fiction,Singing   as applicable to herself required research.
science_fiction,ExPe doesn't like anybody mucking up primary evidence .
science_fiction,Do you have anything for me  ??
humor,"Possibly, the coconut-containing dessert had brought up bitter problems of administration."
humor,"The times I can recall when I was publicly humiliated by him -- lovely dinner parties in our Trianon Suite where the collation was postponed and postponed and postponed, only to be served dry and overcooked at a table where the host's chair was vacant;;"
humor,"He thought a moment, then inquired,   You mean petted  ??"
humor,Borrowing a line from Don Marquis' Mehitabel.
science_fiction,There will be no women aboard the Gabriel.
humor,"In short, and to borrow an arboreal phrase, slash timber."
humor,They were a little late in getting home.
science_fiction,"Yes, those could be commodities under this concept."
science_fiction,One of the best matches I've ever found.
science_fiction,"I think they're dead  , Ekstrohm interjected quietly."
science_fiction,I don't know about that.
science_fiction,"Are you referring, sir  , asked Helva politely,   to the Dark Age discussions of the number of angels who could stand on the head of a pin  ??"
science_fiction,"He had to study the recordings of the language of the chief nation of Ozagen, Siddo."
humor,all were fellows of finite charm.
humor,"She told the sheep, ' The world is coming to an end ' ! !"
humor,"As he leads the Neurenschatz Skolkau Orchestra, Schlek gives a tremendously inspired performance of both the Baslot and Rattzhenfuut concertos, including the controversial Tschilwyk cadenza, which was included at the conductor's insistence."
science_fiction,What's going on here??
humor,"A workbench had a heavy top and sturdy legs, but how did you attach sturdy legs to a heavy top so that the whole thing didn't wobble like a newborn calf and ultimately collapse when you leaned on it??"
humor,"Yes, Blanche was very, very sweet -- being in her company was like being drowned in warm, melted marshmallows."
humor,"They both tried to keep smiling and winking for a long time, but it made their lips and eyelids tremble."
science_fiction,but even more awesome was the fact that it was trailing an enormous comet's-tail of Angels.
science_fiction,"Hesperus, you may speak ."
science_fiction,Said the whining voice.
science_fiction,"You can't see them yet, Jack."
science_fiction,"If because of this incident they become angry with Earth, I will not be permitted to go there at all."
science_fiction,Their meditations were approaching a violent cusp that would shape Martian art for many millennia.
humor,Ambiguity of a non-repetitious kind describes the dilemma one girl found herself in.
science_fiction,"He had his own face, dark and beautiful."
science_fiction,"Through the telescope, Jack could see that both spacesuits were still attached to it."
humor,"When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look."
science_fiction,How did you know  ??
science_fiction,"Mike, there's Mars."
humor,"All this, though, is simply a prelude, a curtain-raiser, for what ensues, and I doubt whether any Occidental could accurately forecast it."
science_fiction,Would you like to see my work  ??
science_fiction,This discovery caused Hal anxiety.
science_fiction,Ekstrohm was not asleep.
humor,"Such ambiguous exercises compound confusion by making it worse compounded, and they are sometimes expanded until the cream of the jest sours."
humor,"It now means, in my country, homosexual  , I said."
science_fiction,She was not alone for there were three other such children in the big city's special nursery.
science_fiction,And the crew would be automatically brought out of their suspended animation.
humor,"At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a   quickie   called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac."
science_fiction,"Shell people resembled mature dwarfs in size whatever their natal deformities were, but the well-oriented brain would not have changed places with the most perfect body in the Universe."
humor,Best not to get everything at once.
science_fiction,"Then the skiff hove into sight, just a dot of light at first against the roiling blackness and crimson streaks of the Coal Sack."
humor,"The teeth will rain from his mouth like pebbles, his wife will make him cocu with fishmongers, and a trolley car will grow in his stomach."
humor,It's only that I like to know where you go .
humor,I now felt it wiser to keep Baby-dear in school and -- during the summers -- at a camp run by the Society of Friends all year around.
humor,"With faint heart and a brave smile, I endured his long absences from Chateau Belletch, his coldness, his indifference, his slights and his abuse."
science_fiction,And that is  ??
humor,"Those are the things I can do, now that I'm set up ."
humor,"By the way  , said Mr. Blatz, packing his tools into a battered carrier,   them power tools needs extra voltage."
humor,After that everything should be simpler.
science_fiction,"Most babes survived the techniques of pituitary manipulation that kept their bodies small, eliminating the necessity of transfers from smaller to larger shells."
humor,Tell me -- what do you do at the park  ??
humor,Perhaps that was the first thing to do.
science_fiction,You people don't have adjustable vision .
humor,His elation grew as Barco's seven disclosures brought to light one reward after another.
humor,Eh  ??
science_fiction,"This was not, for the Angel, just a matter of running through a logical or deductive chain, or deciding on some action from some already established premise."
humor,You what  ??
science_fiction,Helva.
humor,"Why, it's all right, isn't it, Mother  ??"
science_fiction,"On the anniversary of her sixteenth year in her shell, Helva was unconditionally graduated and installed in her ship, the Aj."
humor,"When he returned home, the station wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a friend to some meeting in the village, using the recently purchased second car."
science_fiction,She had tuned her sight to the proper degree.
science_fiction,"The letter, scraped on stone, had been a message home."
science_fiction,He didn't say what would cure him;;
humor,They lay on the cellar floor in a disorderly pile.
science_fiction,"Sonic, electronic, galvanic -- all blank."
science_fiction,"With a short-lived sigh of relief, Jack plugged the fuses back in and threw the switch."
humor,"Suddenly, a messenger arrives and, just before collapsing dead at his feet, informs him that the Saracens have invaded Silesia, the home province of his affianced."
science_fiction,"The ship is huge  , said Macneff,   but the number of military men and specialists we are taking limits the linguists to one."
humor,So he paid a call on Barco in his cell and began their chat by stating bluntly :
science_fiction,"Secretary Hart had taught Jack, at least partially, to be content with small beginnings in all diplomatic matters;;"
humor,revulsion in the desert
science_fiction,We all know what is going to happen.
humor,It was then that I availed myself of the rights of a citizen and declared the income tax unconstitutional.
science_fiction,"Moreover, even getting this across would be difficult."
humor,She made General Burnside's horse's belly do so funny when it was upside down.
science_fiction,Positive results start when it goes towards the hand you use to make your mark .
humor,"We would have preferred, however, to have had the rest of the orchestra refrain from laughing at this and other spots on the recording, since it mars an otherwise sober, if not lofty, performance."
humor,"They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda."
science_fiction,"The Martians have their own setup, different from ours, and as long as they need him, we can't touch him."
science_fiction,"Above them, the sky was the black of space, or the almost equal black of the winter sky above Minneapolis, seen against neon-lit snow."
humor,Far from it;;
humor,the hostess in her took over.
humor,"Rummaging through a stack of drawers nearby, you unearthed an antique French chess set in ivory and sandalwood, which, along with two box Kodaks, you added to your haul."
science_fiction,Repeating it like a student telling himself that the jewel is in the lotus he sank into nirvana.
humor,and so they were consistently true to their principles.
humor,"Did he trouble to memorize the very small part which I had   tailor-made   to his specifications, a role eventually cut down to three short speeches??"
humor,She was biting into a small red radish;;
science_fiction,Consequently no one had remembered to introduce Helva to the prospective partners.
science_fiction,"The sail, ragged though it was, still had enough surface to catch some of the ocean of power being poured out from the nursery stars."
humor,But at long last came a time when I broke away from Mother and her society   chi-chi   in order to spend a cosy evening with Viola and her chaperon at her home.
science_fiction,"They ignored the ladder down to the planet surface and, with only a glance at the seismological gauge to judge surface resistance, dropped to the ground."
science_fiction,"The Boss wants performance, not gripes."
science_fiction,"We regard it as fair only when each party feels that what he has received is as valuable, or more valuable, than what he has given ."
humor,We caught the early train to New York.
science_fiction,"I'm not worried about you mis-reading the dials, Nogol, just about a lug like you reading them at all."
science_fiction,You mean this punk can brush me aside and I've got to hold still for it  ??
humor,"Nothing in English has been ridiculed as much as the ambiguous use of words, unless it be the ambiguous use of sentences."
science_fiction,Maybe it would work the other way.
science_fiction,A scene is just a part of a play.
science_fiction,"In that beautiful place, among all those companionable and attractive people, he sat and smiled."
humor,"Arlene had a hard voice, too, this time."
science_fiction,"Insomnia would ground him from the Exploration Service, on physiological if not psychological grounds."
science_fiction,It was foolish and snobbish to wear clothing when none of these nice people did.
science_fiction,"Think they're intelligent, maybe hostile  ??"
humor,"Great satire has always been clearly written and readily understandable  , I said."
science_fiction,"You're beautiful, beautiful, beautiful."
science_fiction,Where is everybody  ??
humor,"The husbands of these women and others I had met in Catatonia were distinguished only in that they were, to me at least, indistinguishable."
humor,Why do we not realize that no ideology believes so much in itself as it disbelieves in something else??
science_fiction,Foster shook his halo.
science_fiction,"instead of grabbing with hands, she manipulated mechanical extensions."
humor,Or was the answer less metaphysical??
humor,Welch was worried.
humor,"The night he saw it, a rather unpleasant situation arose when the soloist refused to approach the armadillo, complaining -- in ad-lib -- that   it smelled ."
humor,There was an air of revolt about the children -- even irreverence for their own principles.
humor,She added.
humor,and the other went on to development of the idea.
humor,The children rushed off to get rid of their sweaters;;
humor,the pets were a couple of Siamese cats.
science_fiction,"She had, of course, been exposed to and enjoyed a music appreciation course which had included the better known classical works such as   Tristan und Isolde  ,   Candide  ,   Oklahoma  ,   Nozze de Figaro  , the atomic age singers, Eileen Farrell, Elvis Presley and Geraldine Todd, as well as the curious rhythmic progressions of the Venusians, Capellan visual chromatics and the sonic concerti of the Altairians."
humor,Son and Daughter of Local Couple Married .
science_fiction,Dissect it  ??
science_fiction,"As for the night being warm, he would have been comfortable naked on Mount Everest but his water brothers had little tolerance for changes in temperature and pressure;;"
science_fiction,The Man from Mars had interrupted him with his work half finished -- and that stupid jackass Short was certain to louse it up.
humor,Did older people work more slowly??
science_fiction,She instinctively sheered away from personal discussions but she filed the comment away for further meditation.
science_fiction,All I know is that they are gone .
humor,"Bravado has been alternately described as   a symbol of the new grandeur of France and myself   ( De Gaulle ) and   a decadent, disgusting slob   ! !"
humor,No one knew.
humor,"I've been waiting to get these things done for months  , she said."
science_fiction,Mike had not heard it;;
humor,"However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother."
humor,"Thus it was that Barco, apprehended for mere larceny, now began to suspect that one or another of his murders had been uncovered."
science_fiction,"Jack, what is the nature of this concept  ??"
science_fiction,He rolled toward her and took her in his arms.
science_fiction,"Before midnight he speeded his heart, resumed normal breathing, ran down his check list, uncurled and sat up."
humor,Then there was the General kissing his wife.
humor,"Bookies, booze and babes  , Momma said bluntly."
humor,He read Henry James and used to pretend profundity through eye-beamings at people.
humor,people who would give their teeth for a chance to get on   Person to Person  ;;
science_fiction,What do you think I did with them  ??
science_fiction,"With one corner of his mind he knew that they were saying nothing, just expressing the euphoria of a drug so powerful that the known universe had forbidden it."
science_fiction,I think we'd better let it lay until we get a clearer picture of the ecological setup around here.
humor,It was among these that Hinkle identified a photograph of Barco ! !
humor,"She said to the saleslady,   I want a dress to put on around the house ."
science_fiction,The strong negative field his suit set up would help to repel bacteria and insects.
science_fiction,"Well I've been ready a long time -- goodness, we all have, but never mind, dear;;"
humor,"Ben Franklin said,   Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg."
science_fiction,"Some time later, after a check had been made of all automatic equipment, the crew would join the others."
science_fiction,It just won't be easy.
science_fiction,Mercer spoke to her.
humor,"I had once been a witness when Blanche had smiled and said with only minimum ruefulness,   Oh, my souffle has collapsed ."
humor,To his amazement he reached him.
science_fiction,"And, somewhere in that enormous light, was his apartment."
science_fiction,"In privacy he could walk around, leave the light on, read."
humor,Replies to requests for character reference are notorious for their evasive double-entendre.
science_fiction,"Helva   looked   up and caught a fascinating panorama of regular, dirty craters on a flaky pink surface."
humor,He was passing through town and phoned to say hello.
science_fiction,Are you my partner  ??
humor,"I merely draw an etymological distinction, hoping that specialists and busy people like you will welcome such precision in a layman."
humor,Welch was on edge.
science_fiction,"One of the babies died in the initial transferral but of Helva's   class  , seventeen thrived in the metal shells."
humor,My husband is in great pain.
science_fiction,"But they have survived for long periods as races, whereas you are young."
humor,"I woke up this morning  , Moreland said,   paraphrasing Lewis Carroll."
science_fiction,Nothing but wispy grass whipping in the keen breeze.
humor,"Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead '   ! !"
humor,There was a fellow named Blatz over Smithtown way.
humor,The   shooting   went on for eight months ! !
humor,"Not the least bit  , Arlene snapped."
science_fiction,"Occasionally he fell into a waking, gritty-eyed stupor;;"
science_fiction,The gapt.
science_fiction,Nor did they care.
humor,The captain was remarking that it was a nice day for a picnic when finally one of the shovels struck an object.
science_fiction,How can a planet with so many neighbors be so lonely  ??
science_fiction,"There was no reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the ship, except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping on solid ground, they simply had to get out."
humor,"In the comedy of indefinite reference, it-wit occupies a prominent place because of its frequent occurrence."
humor,"He never could keep still, even when he didn't move his feet."
humor,It was in the air.
humor,"The music of Bini SalFininistas, capital LP Ab63711-r, one of the rare recordings of this titanic, yet unsung, composer."
humor,They had bought their house in Catatonia after investigating all the regions of suburbia surrounding New York;;
humor,Mr. Crumb would probably see him at Lodge Meeting the next night.
science_fiction,Mr. Booker T. W. Jones Food Technician First Class is not sad;;
science_fiction,"But this simply requires that they behave in accordance with the dictates of their own natures, and respect yours in turn."
science_fiction,"You've been riding on a pink ticket for six years, you know that ."
science_fiction,"Maybe  , the captain admitted."
humor,"But to Welch's chagrin, the police captain pooh-poohed Welch's credulity in Barco's confession."
humor,We have heard that after seeing Mr. Quasimodo's work it will be virtually impossible to deny the artistic validity and importance of the whole abstract movement.
humor,"I may be back  , he explained,   and then again, I may not ."
science_fiction,"Between individuals, this process is called bargaining."
science_fiction,Gone  ??
science_fiction,A man with insomnia had better avoid bad dreams of that kind if he knew what was good for him.
humor,"The grocery the youth worked for soon tired of his depressing effect on customers, most of whom were sufficiently neurotic without the threat of incubi, and let him go."
science_fiction,"Being reasonably sure of the reason for the long pause, however, did not make it seem any less long to Jack."
humor,Arlene was boosting them up when the policeman came by.
science_fiction,Take it out of me   ! !
humor,") As for his private monies, they were rapidly dissipated in drinking, gaming and carousing."
humor,There's some kind of a nemesis haunting his footsteps .
science_fiction,The land of Shayol did not change.
science_fiction,Mercer got the blissful needle.
science_fiction,"Still, it sometimes gives you a creepy feeling to find a rabbit or a snapping turtle on some strange world."
science_fiction,I am married .
humor,"The world that was once foot-loose and fancy-free  , he said,   has now become screw-loose and frenzy-free."
humor,"If you are trying to get us out of the brothel, the dustbin, the kitchen sink, and the tawdry living-room, you are probably wasting your time  , Moreland told me."
science_fiction,but this one was not nearly as long.
science_fiction,His small black eyes darted inside the olive oval of his face.
science_fiction,But isn't this nice
science_fiction,He had to fight the bliss of super-condamine to do it.
humor,"Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched."
humor,"and frightening, as when a wife tells the police that it is funny, but her husband hasn't been home for two days and nights ."
humor,( An actor must have discipline.
humor,"Like Herbert, they were all in communications : radio, television, magazines, and advertising."
humor,You should hear the reverence in Fran's voice when she said   Baccarat   or   Steuben   or   Madame Alexander .
humor,"Having the deepest of maternal instincts, my heart fairly bled when I thought of the darling pink and white   bundles from heaven   I would have proudly given my husband."
science_fiction,"If she could have blushed, she would have."
humor,"Never a   quick study  , he now made no attempt to learn his   lines   and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and   helpmate   had never learned his part."
humor,"But those are the things I built the workshop for  , protested Mr. Crombie."
science_fiction,Ekstrohm asked.
humor,He piled everything neatly in a corner of the cellar and turned to stare at the blank stone wall.
humor,"With quibs and gibes, the policemen again started digging."
science_fiction,"I'm going to turn my generator back on, as I promised to do."
humor,Never mind.
humor,"When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied,   No, it was in the stomach ."
science_fiction,"In a camp, instead of shipboard, hiding the secret was easier."
humor,"I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his   henchmen   had done their   dirty work   all too well, even going so far as to attempt to   pack   the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me."
science_fiction,I outweigh you fifty pounds and I'm fast for a big man .
humor,The suicide attempt looked to him like an opportunity to put his theory to the test.
science_fiction,Hi   ! !
humor,But not hard for very long.
humor,"While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar."
humor,Nuf sed.
science_fiction,The expedition that had discovered Ozagen had succeeded in correlating two thousand Siddo words with an equal number of American words.
science_fiction,25.
humor,He followed Mr. Blatz up the cellar stairs.
humor,"They are relentlessly rebuffed on all sides by a waitress, the police, and an intruding government tutor."
science_fiction,"And, slowly, feeling himself icy yet burning, Hal turned."
humor,you can't very well sidle up to people on the street and ask if they want to buy a hot Bodhisattva.
science_fiction,"Otherwise, straighten your halo, square your wings, and dig in."
science_fiction,"She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique."
science_fiction,"Nothing wrong with me that couldn't be cured  , Nogol said."
humor,Did you go to their funeral  ??
science_fiction,We seem to be bound by love;;
humor,Then it was that District Attorney Welch entered the case.
science_fiction,"For now, it is clear that we were in the wrong."
science_fiction,"Perhaps, the psychological barriers that had prevented her from conceiving Hal's child would no longer be present."
science_fiction,"The trouble with them was that they almost never worked, and in fact an agreement   in principle   historically turned out to be a sure sign that neither party really wanted the quarrel settled."
humor,"Sometimes, though, they did not seem quite human."
science_fiction,"His mind turned the globe swiftly for him, and he visualized Africa, which used Swahili south of the Sahara Sea."
humor,But the Supreme Court wouldn't even hear my case ! !
science_fiction,' Taught to grow '  ??
science_fiction,once again they clustered like children.
science_fiction,"Gradually, he realized that the pentagon of Angel elders had vanished, and that the ritual learning dance of the nursery had been broken up."
humor,"I'm terribly upset  , she told a girl-friend."
humor,It took me five hours to write it that way .
science_fiction,"They went downstairs, loaded a tray lavishly."
science_fiction,"I held still for the same thing, didn't I??"
science_fiction,No.
science_fiction,Stern chase 10
science_fiction,"It was equally clear that as of this moment, the treaty was off."
humor,"The political and intellectual Left began fighting humor and comedy years ago, because they fear things they do not understand and cannot manage, such as satire and irony, such as humor and comedy."
humor,"Moreland asked, grimly."
science_fiction,People never live forever.
humor,"In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap."
humor,He turned over impatiently and pulled the sheet over his head against the treacherous encroachment of the dawn.
humor,We sat for a while drinking in silence.
science_fiction,The Lady Da and the hand-covered woman stayed near him.
humor,"Could it be that it speeded up for the aged in some mysterious way, as if a bored universe were skipping through the end of the chapter just to get it over with??"
humor,And Arlene showed them how to begin.
science_fiction,"Mike darling   -- They kissed, and went on kissing."
humor,"Comedy didn't die, it just went crazy."
science_fiction,"She would work out a method, by-passing her limitations, whereby she could sing."
humor,In deference to country-squirehood.
science_fiction,He and Mary would no longer have to tear and rend at each other;;
science_fiction,"The years, if they were years, went by."
humor,There was a short pause for reflection.
humor,"Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school."
humor,"Soaring to stardom along with him, Margo Felicity Brighetti, a luscious and curvaceously beguiling Italian starlet, turns in a creditable performance as an airplane mechanic."
science_fiction,It fits the pattern of secrecy and stealth you've been involved in .
science_fiction,"All the more reason, then  , Jack said,   why we must have a treaty."
humor,Joking stopped and everyone gathered around.
science_fiction,"If Hal Yarrow had been killed in a crash, he must have wanted it that way."
science_fiction,But what about our landing was lethal to the creatures  ??
humor,"sometimes he would be up before dawn, clad as a garbage collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us, and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar butts against their paws."
science_fiction,"Actually, they said, he did sleep, but so shortly and fitfully that he forgot."
humor,the two youngest in our family always had to be brought in and put through tricks for his entertainment.
humor,"Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel."
science_fiction,"Why, what a lovely voice you have  , said one of the female visitors."
science_fiction,"The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion."
humor,"One day our species promises co-existence, and the next day it threatens co-extinction ."
science_fiction,"I did not perceive this essential distinction either, First-Born  , Hesperus said at once,   I was only practicing a concept that Jack taught me, called a deal ."
humor,I sat and watched proceedings.
humor,"Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change."
humor,At first Barco was evasive and shifty.
science_fiction,"Please pardon me again, Sandalphon  , said Hal."
science_fiction,You knew him  ??
science_fiction,"In fact, it had to be tried."
science_fiction,"he felt the far, cool flash of unimportant pain, as B'dikkat dabbed the wound with a corrosive antiseptic which stopped all bleeding immediately."
humor,"Not in the largest sense of the words  , I said."
humor,"( I watched it on television late one night last week and it   stands up   remarkably well, even twenty years later."
humor,Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote :   Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood .
science_fiction,I had thought we would never again speak to each other .
humor,the yellow pages of the telephone book were amazingly thin ).
humor,Dogs did something to one's ego.
humor,"Sort of remorseless, isn't it??"
humor,"He went down to Mills and Bradley's Hardware Store and bought a full set of carpenter's tools, including a rotary power saw and several other pieces of power machinery that Mr. Mills said were essential for babbiting and doweling, whatever they were."
science_fiction,"So, for all practical purposes, it was an independent nation and by now had its own organized government ( unrecognized outside its own borders )."
humor,"How dared they demand to   snoop   in private financial records, disbursements, confidential contracts and agreements??"
science_fiction,"Of course, some of my color values do not match the old Master's and the perspective is faulty but I believe it to be a fair copy ."
humor,He was glad.
science_fiction,His household had gone through an upset.
science_fiction,Of course you can.
science_fiction,"Having arrived he blinked sleepily and friendlily at them, and lapsed back into the restful stupor from which he had emerged."
humor,"If you can fix it up with the undertaker  , returned the politician,   it's all right with me ."
science_fiction,But   singing   for any shell person posed considerable technical difficulties to be overcome.
science_fiction,"Digby calmed down, but made one request."
humor,The cake was received in a stunned silence that was evidence in itself of the dearth of taste thrills Mama had been providing.
humor,"After a   busy   overture, the curtain rises on a farm scene -- the Ranavan Valley in northern Maine."
humor,During these first days of the trial I didn't have as much time to commiserate with Viola as I should have liked.
humor,"It consists in saying, ' That would be sending the goat to look after the cabbage."
science_fiction,Maybe I will grow another head.
humor,"However one looks at it, therefore, I'd say that your horoscope for this autumn is the reverse of rosy."
science_fiction,"If the authorities remarked on her curious avocation, they did so among themselves."
humor,"Francesca and Herbert considered themselves violently nonconformist and showed the world they were by filling their Colonial house with contemporary furniture and paintings and other art objects ( expensive, but not necessarily valuable, contemporary things )."
science_fiction,"After experimentation, Helva discovered that she could manipulate her diaphragmic unit to sustain tone."
humor,I reached into that funny little pocket that is high up on my dress.
science_fiction,Her own sound production equipment was essentially more instrumental than vocal.
humor,and they had told their mother about the tumbles.
science_fiction,The Angels in turn would exercise similar restraints in respect for the natural preferences and natures of the Earthmen -- but they had no faintest notion of man's perverse habit of passing and enforcing laws which were contrary to his own preferences and violations of his nature.
humor,"Fran and he had met about two years after she had arrived in Manhattan from Nebraska, or was it Wyoming??"
science_fiction,The pain seems short and the pleasure seems long.
science_fiction,Digby was not pleased with his promotion.
humor,"), had listed himself for Mormon Beard roles at the instigation of his fourth murder victim who had said :   With your beard, dear, you ought to be in movies   ! !"
humor,Many Shapes in bathtubs.
humor,"Did it take a man of sixty-five longer to write a letter, shave, clean out a barn, read a newspaper, than a man of thirty??"
science_fiction,But fusion power in the Coal Sack was what had triggered all the trouble in the first place -- and he already had an Angel aboard.
humor,"She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous."
science_fiction,"They would have to bide their official time and see, trusting that the massive doses of shell-psychology would suffice her, too, as the necessary bulwark against her unusual confinement and the pressures of her profession."
humor,I wouldn't have missed it for anything.
science_fiction,"He stepped out into the hall, was delighted to encounter a water brother."
humor,"The cycle of disaster starts the moment they touch any belonging of ours, and dogs them unto the forty-fifth generation."
humor,During all his busy life he had only done things which had to be done.
humor,"Quite candidly, fellows, I wouldn't be in your shoes for all the rice in China."
humor,"For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood."
humor,What I meant to say was that I started to start in on the dishes by gathering them all together in the kitchen sink.
humor,"I couldn't invite Viola to our house, for Mother snobbishly refused to receive her."
science_fiction,He remembered them well from his happy period.
science_fiction,With most of his mind he was happy.
science_fiction,You can't touch him.
science_fiction,Let's take it outside.
science_fiction,"The camp was a cluster of aluminum bubbles, ringed with a spy web to alert the Earthmen to the approach of any being."
humor,She also taught them to sing   I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate .
science_fiction,I enjoyed my lessons .
humor,"Her reply stung me, but this was too important to let my hurt make any difference."
humor,They also caught on a little bit on how to smile a lot without your lips trembling.
science_fiction,Thought Hal.
humor,She was rollickingly happy.
science_fiction,"It is Mars, isn't it??"
humor,But what quarter could a poor defenseless woman expect from a dictator who would even make so bold as to close all of the banks in our great nation??
humor,I couldn't tell one from the other.
science_fiction,Some of them were warts until they got promoted.
science_fiction,Yes.
humor,My mother was beside herself with curiosity.
science_fiction,"If that was the skiff, it was making unprecedented speed."
science_fiction,"As she worked she absentmindedly crooned, producing a curious sound."
humor,"Hastening to the attic, the temperature of which was easily hotter than the Gold Coast, you proceeded to mask the windows with a fancy wool coverlet, some khaki pants, and the like, and to ransack the innumerable boxes and barrels stored there."
humor,I stood up and began pacing.
humor,"As you've doubtless forgotten the circumstances in the press of more recent depredations, permit me to recapitulate them briefly."
science_fiction,"No, I say  , the lady twittered."
science_fiction,That it had found a planet on which human beings could live and which was already inhabited by sentient beings   ! !
humor,"In this country, the two guiding lights are, without doubt, Felix Fing and Anna Pulova."
science_fiction,I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.
humor,It is his relentlessness and unwaivering adherence to this revolutionary artistic philosophy that has enabled him to paint such pictures as   The Invasion of Cuba .
humor,"Furthermore -- and this, to me, strikes an especially warming note -- it shall avail the vandals naught to throw away or dispose of their loot."
humor,"One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap."
science_fiction,"The girls seemed to spend half their time tiptoeing in   to see if Mike was all right   and they were too preoccupied to cook, much less be secretaries."
science_fiction,Mike remained in trance;;
humor,"Not only were the court costs prohibitive, but I was subjected to crippling fines, in addition to usurious interest on the unpaid   debts   which the government claimed that Metronome and I owed -- a severe financial blow."
humor,"We bump  , one said;;"
science_fiction,"and whether intentional or not, the outcome would be disastrous."
humor,"while projecting from beneath the couch were a pair of feet which, as Fate would have it, belonged to District Attorney Welch."
science_fiction,"As she matured, more and more neural synapses would be adjusted to operate other mechanisms that went into the maintenance and running of a space ship."
science_fiction,Though that does not mean that there may not be such records there.
humor,My host went over and stared out the window at his peacocks;;
humor,Now it became increasingly apparent that there were to be no dogs in the picture.
science_fiction,On the side toward the horizon -- the southern hemisphere -- it is spring;;
humor,She it was who had looked to see if I was wearing shoes upon learning that I couldn't drive.
science_fiction,"there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took   church   and   worship   and   God   and   congregation   and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby."
humor,I guess you know about that.
science_fiction,"You hold down the fort, Nogol."
humor,The inventory you acquired from me isn't going to be easy to move;;
humor,See that guy  ??
science_fiction,It would have killed you in the cabin.
humor,The police captain chortled.
humor,"Well, here it is."
humor,You what  ??
humor,Mr. Blatz agreed that this would be pretty.
humor,That ain't too bad 'ceptin' the light company's so busy you can't ever get 'em to do nothin' .
humor,"Apart from journalese and vaudeville gags, the anatomical is also found in jocular literature."
science_fiction,His handwriting was on a rock.
science_fiction,Why pick me for your patsy??
humor,"On some distant farm a rooster crowed and, far down the valley, an associate answered."
humor,"More than once I was confronted by professional gamblers,   bookies  , loan   sharks  , gangsters,   thugs   and   finger men   -- people of a class I did not even know existed -- to repay my husband's staggering losses,   or else   I shuddered to think that someone so dear to me could even associate with such a sinister milieu."
humor,It is becoming harder and harder to tell law courts and political arenas from the modern theatre .
humor,"While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ."
science_fiction,What's happened  ??
science_fiction,"Did they remember to program a sense of humor, as well, young lady  ??"
humor,"Again, my name was on all the front pages."
science_fiction,At this stage of the game anything could be possible.
science_fiction,Once again B'dikkat moved among them like a father;;
humor,It was General Burnside's horse running in a circle.
humor,"After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that."
science_fiction,People never live forever .
science_fiction,"Finally, Mercer did manage to follow B'dikkat to the door of the cabin."
humor,"Their house was a centuries-old Colonial which they had had restored ( guided by an eminent architect ) and updated, and added on to."
humor,He oughta be able to build a new house with all them contraptions .
humor,and Arlene began tapping the kitchen door open.
humor,"The effect, needless to say, is almost terrifying, and though at times a bit obscure, the film is certainly a much-needed catharsis for the   repressed   movie-goer."
science_fiction,Hal Yarrow was among the last to go into the suspensor and among the first to come out.
science_fiction,"It would not have occurred to her that it was curious for a female to sing bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo, soprano and coloratura as she pleased."
humor,"But, like Caesar, he has only one joke, so far as I can find out."
science_fiction,It was small comfort for insomnia.
humor,"How did one attach anything to a stone wall, for that matter??"
humor,Where were you  ??
science_fiction,"' A good morrow to you, my boy."
humor,Nobody liked to hire him because you never could tell when he was going to be taken drunk.
science_fiction,"Remember, when the little hand is straight up that's negative."
science_fiction,The sooner you act like an angel the quicker you'll feel angelic.
science_fiction,"You are right now, buddy."
science_fiction,"Fortunately, gender was inflected, though the expression of it would be difficult for anybody not born in Siddo."
science_fiction,He struggled out of his clothes.
humor,"I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said,   I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ."
science_fiction,"Macneff smiled and said,   I am glad that your scriptural lessons have left such an impression ."
humor,Such sweeping distractions are hardly conducive to   Oscar   winning performances.
science_fiction,The next time it was two legs growing from his chest.
humor,"Now can you tell me who was drunk -- The man, his wife, or me  ??"
humor,There was a long silence.
science_fiction,Mercer wondered how long the super-condamine had lasted him.
science_fiction,"He was closer to understanding it in English now, although it could never have the inevitability of the Martian concept it stood for."
humor,"Yet I adored this man, Letch Feeley, why, I cannot say."
science_fiction,Or Antares  ??
science_fiction,"Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself."
humor,"There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles )."
humor,"Well, for ten years I've been murdering women."
humor,"We go to the park with this nice lady  , one of them said."
humor,The Champs Elysees is literally littered this summer with the prostrate bodies of France's beat-up beatnik jeunes filles.
humor,His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.
humor,"Evenings, he was frequently to be seen at restaurants like Enrico & Paglieri's or Peter's Backyard drunkenly donning ladies' hats and singing   O Sole Mio ."
humor,A politician was approached by a man seeking the office of a minor public official who had just died.
humor,He would wake up in the middle of the night and fret about it.
science_fiction,but there was no small way to handle this one.
humor,But I would not pamper myself in that silly way.
humor,You explain English by Greek .
humor,And did he appreciate my efforts on his behalf??
humor,"Besides Francesca, there was Blanche."
humor,I have a thousand things for you to do.
humor,"But Mother insisted, for it is seldom indeed that anyone remotely connected with the cinema is ever received in their exclusive midsts."
science_fiction,The sudden solitude had lost its momentary charm and become oppressive.
humor,"I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable   watchdog   organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly   creeping socialism   against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular   relief   checks."
humor,"When it was worn in the breast, or even on the sleeve, we at least knew where it was ."
science_fiction,The monitor of this discourse grinned with pride and amusement as Helva's tone indicated pity for the unfortunate.
humor,"Pueri aquam de silvas ad agricolas portant, a delightful vignette set in the unforgettable epoch of pre-Punic War Rome."
humor,"I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe."
humor,They're just something you're supposed to put on cereal for breakfast .
humor,"Resolving to get something done, I started in on the dishes."
science_fiction,What could I do with your lousy dead bodies??
humor,At least the moment was postponed when he had to face the mystery of the power tools.
humor,"Oh, I forgot to say that if one is taken to the funny house in the funny wagon, he is removed to a mental institution in an ambulance."
science_fiction,"I volunteer  , said Hal."
humor,Is that so  ??
humor,"The attempt had failed because, when endeavoring to cut his wrists, this murderer of seven women had fainted at the sight of blood."
humor,And she would wink and throw kisses.
humor,"Moore and Longfellow didn't have the fate that faces us  , Moreland said."
science_fiction,No -- there was a tiny pip on the radar;;
humor,"Of course, dear  , she said."
humor,"Could such unadulterated love, for a total stranger, be credited??"
humor,That worm a murderer??
humor,I wouldn't have wasted time puzzling over this couple were it not for my fear that all the other inhabitants of Catatonia were equally unreal.
humor,"disturbing, as when one says that a friend is acting funny;;"
humor,"He had almost forgotten them, although they had played such an important part in his early dreams."
science_fiction,Formerly he had noticed them -- now he felt them.
science_fiction,"after all, he had had the same set of facts as Jack had had to work from, and he was an almost frighteningly observant man."
science_fiction,Was??
humor,"Then, for the first time since his arrest, a glint of spirit lit Barco's eyes."
humor,He asked.
humor,There wasn't any such thing any more.
science_fiction,It is Mars .
science_fiction,Do with what  ??
science_fiction,"Look for them, will you??"
humor,"It never worked, naturally;;"
science_fiction,I had that in mind .
humor,I am worried about the current meanings of the word funny.
humor,"Richard Brinsley Sheridan said,   I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two ."
science_fiction,"No, no, no."
humor,"From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade-handled magnifying glass."
humor,"The more I probed into this young man's activities and character, the less savory I found him."
science_fiction,She found herself able to sing any role and any song which struck her fancy.
humor,"All they could think of was to run around in circles, kicking their legs out."
humor,What have you got on today  ??
science_fiction,He had lost his audience.
science_fiction,His own fate he accepted.
science_fiction,"When he said it, they thought it exceedingly profound, though none of them understood it, since it was simply the amount of time that Mercer had been on Shayol :"
humor,The maid demurred.
humor,"But that wasn't very funny, either."
science_fiction,"What are you talking about, Ryan??"
humor,"It went to his head, and his ambition increased."
humor,And here it was ! !
humor,Or perhaps a new Noel Coward  ??
humor,"Did you or did you not say what I said you said, because Jane said you never said what I said  ??"
science_fiction,Yes indeed.
humor,"well, not discussed him exactly, but said,   Kafka   ! !"
humor,"and it is not unlikely that, even as the great Bach lay dormant for so many years, so has the erudite, ingenious SalFininistas passed through his   purgatory   of neglect."
humor,"I'm not pleading for the heart that leaps up when it beholds a rainbow in the sky, or for the heart that with rapture fills and dances with the daffodils."
humor,The children looked at each other and sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably than ever.
humor,"You don't step on the flowers, do you??"
science_fiction,Now there could be an end to pretending.
humor,"Like almost everybody else, he confused the heart, both as organ and as symbol, with the disturbed psyche, the deranged glands, and the jumpy central nervous system."
humor,Not without good reason has the anatomical been called jocular journalese.
science_fiction,She radiated warmth and good fellowship.
humor,"Reduced to beggary, he at last got a job as office boy to a television producer."
science_fiction,But now I am not lonely.
science_fiction,"Naturally, he couched the provision in obscure language."
humor,"Mills secured Barco's photograph from the gentleman in charge, rushed to the Hollywood police station to report the theft, and less than five minutes later, detectives with his picture in hand were on the trail of Cal Barco."
science_fiction,"Neither nation would give up their claim on it, yet neither wished to make any move that might lead to a second Apocalyptic War."
humor,It all has something to do with General Burnside and his horse .
science_fiction,"Langer would have to be headed off, whether he knew where he was going or not."
humor,"I dug around and found a mix, and was able to surprise them with a devil's-food cake with chocolate icing."
science_fiction,"But not having talked to the Angels, he had made a wrong turn in his reasoning somewhere along the line."
humor,"As a result, he was persuaded out to dinner."
humor,They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene -- whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door.
humor,That helped a lot.
science_fiction,Suppose that this one were to work??
science_fiction,It was worth trying.
science_fiction,"The simple treaty principle that Gabriel was asking him to ratify, in short, was nothing less than total trust."
humor,It read :   Shot in the lumbar region .
science_fiction,"Her statement was a hope, not a truth in which they could believe."
humor,"Only, unfortunately, he could not remove from his voice a nagging insinuation of the direct command."
science_fiction,We have learned much about interstellar drives since a hundred years ago;;
humor,"For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called   non-dramas   which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer."
science_fiction,"Helva's class was doing Fine Arts, a selective subject in her crowded program."
science_fiction,Nothing.
science_fiction,This would be the fifth mapping expedition to the planetoids of Yancy-6 in three generations.
humor,"Questions like this, framed in verbal fog, are perhaps the only kind that have ever stumped an experienced politician."
humor,"Once there, the D.A. with devilish cleverness would provide Marshall with headlines :   Viola's Multiple Romances     Viola Lake an Addict     Downfall of Another Film Idol   ! !"
science_fiction,Which you are programed to compute  ??
humor,He looked at the luminous dial of his wrist watch.
humor,"If we cannot tell evil, horror, and insanity from nonsense, what is the future of humor and comedy  ??"
science_fiction,"Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall."
humor,"Just you wait  , advised Arlene, echoing the dialogue in a recent British movie."
humor,"The other day Arnold Toynbee spoke against the inveterate tendency of our species to believe in the uniqueness of its religions, its ideologies, and its virtually everything else."
humor,"Whosoever violates our rooftree, the legend states, can expect maximal sorrow."
humor,"I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy  , I told him, at which he started slightly, and then made us each a stiff drink, with a trembling hand."
humor,"After a moment of thought, her mind cleared and, in the interest of clarity, she typed into the record :   Shot in the woods ."
science_fiction,Now we grow closer .
science_fiction,"However, we sent a third vessel out, a much smaller and faster one than the first two."
humor,"the air was thick with smoke, empty bottles were in evidence, and several of the guests were somewhat the worse for liquor."
science_fiction,"This fiery swath was actually only a belt of minor planets, almost like the asteroid belt in the original Solar System."
science_fiction,"And it might be, considering the uncomfortable custom the Angels had of thinking of everything in terms of absolutes, that the proposal of anything less might well amount instead to something like a declaration of war."
science_fiction,How could they not??
humor,"In clothes, Letch simply did not project."
humor,"As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually   all mine  , with nearly every scene built around me."
science_fiction,"Check with one of them, go ahead -- there's no professional jealousy here ."
science_fiction,"Hesperus, don't use this t-tau vector trick of yours, please."
science_fiction,"All around the Mediterranean Sea, Asia Minor, northern India, and Tibet, Hebrew was the native tongue."
science_fiction,"But, I'm telling you, it'll be turned down -- you don't understand the System yet."
humor,This happy bulletin convulsed Mr. Gorboduc.
humor,"When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen."
humor,"people who thought it was nice to be important, but not important to be nice;;"
humor,"If I could only think of something at the studio, near me, to absorb his boundless energy  , I said."
humor,"If he was sober, which was doubtful, he'd have him get in touch with Mr. Crombie."
science_fiction,Nitrogen and oxygen are about it .
science_fiction,"Oh, my ! !"
humor,"And the sheep said -- all in unison, I have no doubt -- ba-a-a ! !"
humor,He was so long thinking that my mother had time to inspect her sherry for dregs.
humor,Mr. Gorboduc took a swig of his sherry.
humor,You certainly couldn't take them into the little apartment and if you tried to farm them out for two or three days every week they would become so confused that they would have nervous breakdowns.
science_fiction,The facsiport rolled open on the landscape.
humor,"The policeman walked on, but he looked back once."
science_fiction,There were several missions which demanded instant attention but Helva had been of interest to several department heads in Central for some time and each man was determined to have her assigned to his section.
humor,"Above all, disabuse yourselves of any thought that I propose to vent moral indignation at your rifling my residence, to whimper over the loss of a few objets d'art, or to shame you into rectitude."
humor,"The foregoing, aided by several clues I'll withhold to keep you on your toes, will pursue you with a tenacity worthy of Inspector Javert, but before they close in, gird yourselves, I repeat, for a vengeance infinitely more pitiless."
humor,He turned his attention to the workbench.
humor,"These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting."
humor,"For the remainder of the movie, Chancellor Neitzbohr proceeds to lash the piano stool with a slat from a Venetian blind that used to hang in the pre-war Reichstag."
humor,"But we now find writers obsessed by the nooks and crannies of their ivory towers, and curiously devoted to the growing obscurity and complexity of poetry and non-poetry."
science_fiction,You may not be responsible .
science_fiction,"Here, this will help  , suggested Helva, substituting a magnifying device in one extension and holding it over the picture."
science_fiction,"When they were forced to, Central Worlds shrugged its shoulders, arranged a tour of the Laboratory Schools and set the tour off to a big start by showing the members case histories, complete with photographs."
science_fiction,Thou art God .
science_fiction,To this we of course agree .
humor,"My advice, if you live long enough to continue your vocation, is that the next time you're attracted by the exotic, pass it up -- it's nothing but a headache."
humor,"At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance."
science_fiction,"Besides, they were not the only impressions."
humor,Henry Ford spoke of me as   utterly astounding .
science_fiction,"We can die, too, we can die like real people."
science_fiction,"Naturally, he couldn't let his shipmates know this."
humor,"The beautiful, the satisfying part of his disintegration, however, was the masterly way the Buddha polished him off."
humor,"Doors that won't open, and doors that won't close and shelves and broken --"
humor,"Jennie and Miranda twined themselves around me, murmuring endearments."
humor,Fran flaunted her independence by rebelling against the Catatonia uniform of Bermuda shorts and knee-length socks by wearing Bermuda shorts and knee-length socks in colors;;
humor,"Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart."
science_fiction,"He was wide awake, but he did not feel like doing anything."
science_fiction,Never at all.
humor,"Arlene was so ashamed that she hung her head when she said,   Yes, sir ."
humor,"It had a gourmet's corner ( instead of a kitchen ), a breakfast room, a luncheon room, a dining room, a sitting room, a room for standing up, a party room, dressing rooms for everybody, even a room for mud."
humor,"This is the force, in our time and in every other time, that urges the paranoiac and the manic-depressive to become head of a state."
humor,"She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful )."
science_fiction,They'll be in range in a short while .
humor,In news items a man is less often shot in the body or head than in the suburbs.
humor,We have good times .
humor,"Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there."
science_fiction,"And why was it causing so much agitation among the Angels, and being followed by so many of them??"
science_fiction,"Yet, he told himself, this was the best way."
science_fiction,"For her first three vegetable months she waved her crabbed claws, kicked weakly with her clubbed feet and enjoyed the usual routine of the infant."
science_fiction,"The half-man received a dromozootic implant, turned red in the face, shouted senselessly at Mercer,   Take it out, you fool ! !"
humor,She held herself that way and turned her head towards them and laughed and winked.
humor,"They were, I felt, people invariably trying to prove not who, but what they were, and trying to determine what, not who, others were."
humor,There was no question of that.
science_fiction,"Okay, Stormy, this isn't the place for fun and games."
humor,"i.e., burglars who rob while the tenants are absent, in contrast to hot-slough prowlers, those who work while the occupants are home."
humor,My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.
humor,"they expired amid indescribable fantods, imploring the Blessed One to forgive their desecration."
science_fiction,"Then, after slowing the vessel considerably, the drive would adjust to a one-gee deceleration."
humor,"You have visited England five times in the past quarter-century, I believe  , my host said."
humor,"Opera in the Grand Tradition, along with mah-jongg, seems to be staging a well-deserved comeback."
humor,His manhood had been attacked.
science_fiction,For a moment he could make no sense at all of what he saw.
science_fiction,"What will we need outside, Ryan  ??"
humor,I'm a stranger in paradise .
science_fiction,One such group got all incensed over shelled   children   when Helva was just turning fourteen.
science_fiction,"Always she had had the company of other shells and more recently, technicians by the score."
science_fiction,"Nobody else can live in your hearth while I am in it  , Hesperus said promptly."
humor,"Sometimes, he coincided with my father's being at home."
science_fiction,There were nine qualified scouts sitting around collecting base pay the day Helva was commissioned.
science_fiction,But I'm ambidextrous .
science_fiction,"But Mary would soon no longer be living there, for she would be notified in a few days that her husband had died in an accident while on a flight to Tahiti."
science_fiction,he had.
humor,"Cryptic  , I said."
humor,So Mr. Crombie sat on a wooden box and talked in order to keep Mr. Blatz's mind from funny things.
humor,"I promised to illustrate the lecture, if they so much as breathed till after the call was completed."
humor,"If, however, it would help to intensify your anguish, I can delimit the powers of a few of the divinities you've affronted and describe the punishment they meted out in one analogous instance."
humor,I admired their easy way of doing things but I couldn't escape an uneasiness at their way of always doing the right things.
science_fiction,That's out of a play.
humor,"His legs shook, and the shaking went right on up his body through his hips to his shoulders."
humor,"The detective, commenting on Barco's behavior, felt that he merely belonged among the myriad citizens of our community who are mentally unhinged -- that he was a more or less harmless   nut   ! !"
science_fiction,Asleep.
science_fiction,Ryan insisted.
science_fiction,Her hum became a gurgle of surprise.
humor,Do you want to hear the paraphrase  ??
science_fiction,"I never saw that  , said Mercer,   but I   --"
humor,"She lived in an ultra-modern house whose decoration, appointments, paint, and even pets were chosen to complement her coloring;;"
humor,"That is only partly non-nonsense  , he began."
science_fiction,"Uh-huh  , Ryan admitted."
humor,"As Viola sat there, a playful impulse overcame her to remove the shoes and socks from the unidentified feet and, as a prank, insert rosebuds between the toes."
science_fiction,Helva turned her vision back to magnification and surveyed her copy critically.
science_fiction,The dromozoa fed him in their mysterious way;;
science_fiction,Ekstrohm demanded.
science_fiction,She would be among the elite of her kind.
humor,Is it anything like cooked-over oatmeal  ??
science_fiction,No matter who the candidate for marriage selected by the gapt
science_fiction,That would make B'dikkat happy   ! !
humor,Their curiosity went happily out of bounds.
humor,Hell's own amount of chaulmoogra oil did nothing to alleviate their torment;;
science_fiction,"They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history."
humor,"you're tooling around full of gage in your hot rods, gorging yourselves on pizza and playing pinball in the taverns and generally behaving like Ubermenschen."
humor,It was a disaster ! !
humor,"I can't turn the studio into a gambling hell or a saloon  , I said."
humor,"but he said it too soon, for it came out just before the tap to which the door responded."
science_fiction,Sometimes the bubbling sound of geysers came faintly across the plain to the herd of men;;
science_fiction,"Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession."
science_fiction,Mike do you ever get homesick??
science_fiction,"Don't bother  , Mike answered."
humor,"You and I have fallen out of literature into politics  , Moreland observed."
humor,"There was also Gott strafe Angleterre  , Moreland reminded me,   and Carthago delenda est, or if you will, Deus strafe Carthage."
science_fiction,"Mercer did not know what an   Earth-week   was, since he had not been a well-read man before his conviction, but he got nothing more from the half-man at that time."
science_fiction,It sure as hell doesn't look like any dominant intelligent species to me.
science_fiction,"Now all the bodies are missing, like they got up and walked away ."
science_fiction,"Many years later, the photon-counting apparatus in the nose of the ship would determine that the star was close enough to actuate deceleration."
humor,"We won't live long enough if I wait for you, besides which you don't need to worry -- there'll be plenty more ."
humor,"Then, she was back on her feet, winking and smiling that enormous smile ( she had lots of wonderful big teeth that you never would have suspected she had when she was not smiling )."
humor,"Also, she lived in continual fear of finding a white worm curled up in a neat, mean little heap at the white center of the radish."
science_fiction,In his mind he spoke simultaneously the English sentence and the Martian word and felt closer grokking.
science_fiction,"It was day, but in the thin atmosphere contrasts were sharp between light and shadow."
humor,"Finally he asked,   Do you object to petting  ??"
humor,What has impressed you most on your present visit  ??
science_fiction,We grok God .
science_fiction,"In a kind of shock, the ladies and gentlemen of the committee bent to observe the incredibly copied and brilliantly executed Last Supper on the head of a screw."
humor,"I'm sorry, Mrs. Minks  , Arlene said in a tone so low you could hardly hear it."
science_fiction,The bunk he lay on was much more uncomfortable than the acceleration couches on board.
science_fiction,I don't think I can.
humor,"During the return trip, Barco kept muttering to himself in meaningless phrases, such as :   They're under sand dunes They're better off, I tell you I saved their souls ."
science_fiction,"He would never have believed, without seeing it, that the bizarre little vessel could go so fast."
science_fiction,"Meanwhile, all the personnel except those few needed to carry out the performance of the ship, went into the suspensor."
science_fiction,"Hey, this is pretty close to a wart-hog ."
humor,"Speaking into the phone again and recognizing the caller, I resumed my everyday voice."
science_fiction,Did you ever see a play  ??
science_fiction,We have considered several of your professionals because they were lamechians and above suspicion.
science_fiction,This went faster than scheduled as the Martians were helpful.
science_fiction,At last he noticed a return of the inwardness of pain.
humor,They wanted to see what his back felt like -- the General's.
humor,What is it  ??
science_fiction,"The neural, audio, visual and sensory connections were made and sealed."
humor,I thought for a second.
humor,"But dear me, no;;"
humor,but it made her look unusual.
science_fiction,"Mercer stammered, not knowing what B'dikkat meant, and the two-nosed man answered for him,   I think he has a nice baby head, but it isn't big enough for you to take yet ."
humor,"There had been some coconut in it, for I remember my mother's taking a quick glance at a stringy bit of this nut on the cheek of one of them and then putting down her radish with a shiver."
humor,Is it true that you believe the other animals are saner than the human species  ??
science_fiction,he wanted to explain his new grokking.
humor,The girl nodded understandingly.
humor,Did he show the rest of the cast -- numbering four thousand -- the consideration of arriving at the studio punctually -- or even at all??
science_fiction,Therefore of course I will help .
science_fiction,I'll switch on the floods .
science_fiction,The bodies in the truck threshed and bawled without human speech when the dromozoa struck them.
science_fiction,Ryan shook his head.
humor,"The human ego being what it is  , I put in,   science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats."
science_fiction,"No, not he, for I, and I alone, am responsible for whatever happens to me."
humor,"Our suspicions eventually centered, by the process of elimination, on a grocer's boy, a thoroughly bad hat, who delivered cartons to the people overhead."
humor,"Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego."
humor,"Then Jennie closed her eyes, stretched forth her arms, and said :   Take my hand, Louise;;"
science_fiction,"No  , said the half-man,   a sort of eye-machine with real people doing the figures ."
science_fiction,"And very, very few were lost when the final connection was made to the control panels of ship or industrial combine."
humor,I have no notion why I reached.
humor,"I want the fish served whole, with head and tail  , the epicure explained,   and serve it with lemon in mouth ."
science_fiction,The big man seldom gave out with such thoughts.
science_fiction,"The half-man woke, recognized Mercer and gave him a healthily sleepy grin."
humor,He did not ! !
science_fiction,"Then, he said,   Unfortunately, only one lamechian linguist exists, and he is too old for this expedition."
humor,"How in the world had he formerly found time to build up a business, raise a family, be on half a dozen boards, work actively on committees and either go out in the evening or plow through the contents of a bulging brief case??"
humor,And it so happened that adjacent to a couch on which she had taken refuge was a small table on which she noted a vase of red rosebuds;;
science_fiction,"My, you look chipper ."
humor,He asked.
science_fiction,"These planets were much bigger, nearly all capable of holding an atmosphere."
humor,"Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox."
humor,It is but so-so .
science_fiction,"Of course  , replied Helva logically, activating her outside scanners."
science_fiction,"Foster listened with angelic patience until Digby ran down, then said,   Listen, junior, you're an angel now -- so forget it."
science_fiction,"Mary was free to marry again, not knowing that the Sturch had secretly given her a divorce, thinking that death had dissolved her marriage."
science_fiction,"A thousand pardons  , said Hal."
science_fiction,"Said she,   I'm strong, too."
humor,How in the world did one attach a pegboard to a stone wall??
humor,It was apparent that Welch was in cahoots with Marshall and would use his power as D.A. to drag every possible sensation into the case.
humor,"Although the play does show a certain structural amateurishness ( there are eleven acts varying in length from twenty-five seconds to an hour and a half ), the statement it makes concerning the ceaseless yearning and searching of youth is profound and worthy of our attention."
science_fiction,Tanner wisecracked.
humor,"The robe, however, was missing, for by that time Barco had disposed of it at a pawnshop in Glendale."
science_fiction,"As long as her development within her shell lived up to expectations, and there were no side-effects from the pituitary tinkering, Helva would live a rewarding, rich and unusual life, a far cry from what she would have faced as an ordinary,   normal   being."
humor,Foreigners this way ' ! !
humor,"Francesca was pleasant and charming, but Blanche was sweet."
humor,After the pegboard there would be the paneling.
science_fiction,"The Angels in the nursery were zigzagging wildly in all directions, seemingly at random."
humor,Was it possible that as people grow older the nature of time changed??
humor,"Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him."
science_fiction,"Said Hal, forgetting in his enthusiasm that he had not been asked to speak."
humor,"I asked, taking a final gulp of my drink, and handing him the empty glass."
science_fiction,"A Tibetan swami from Palermo, Sicily, announced in Beverly Hills a newly discovered, ancient yoga discipline for ripple breathing which increased both pranha and cosmic attraction between sexes."
humor,"I'm General Burnside's horse, upside down  , Arlene said, sort of gaspingly, for her : even she had to breathe kind of funny when she was in that position."
science_fiction,I'll switch on the underwater lights.
science_fiction,"This was no man's land, disputed by the Haijac Union and the Israeli Republic, a potential source of war for the last two hundred years."
humor,They were   sincere   -- men of the too-hearty handclasp and the urgent smile.
science_fiction,"Hal waited : Macneff paced some more, frowning."
science_fiction,"In between teratologies, she was a pretty and shapely woman;;"
humor,The obscurity of politicians may not always be as innocent as it looks.
humor,The policeman's eyes rather popped for a second;;
humor,But this time she was nervous : she was open.
science_fiction,That's why I think of plays.
humor,Pioneers ! !
humor,There are many grammatical misconstructions other than dangling modifiers and anatomicals which permit two different interpretations.
humor,"Viola greeted me, in checked apron, ladle in hand, and explained it was the cook's night out and that she herself was preparing dinner."
science_fiction,"Jubal couldn't reconstruct the crime from the way the girls behaved because patterns kept shifting -- ABC vs D, then BCD vs A or AB vs CD, or AD vs CB, through all ways that four women can gang up on each other."
humor,"She always let it be known that there was wine in the pot roast or that the chicken had been marinated in brandy, and that Koussevitzky's second cousin was an intimate of theirs."
science_fiction,"Helva asked, politely."
science_fiction,Ekstrohm suggested.
science_fiction,Almost surely he did;;
humor,They're not even food.
science_fiction,plants are being taught to grow .
humor,Maybe that was why they were cordial and loyal towards the unpredictability of Arlene.
humor,"And then again perhaps the reason why he couldn't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement : reading, roaming, gardening, lying on his back and watching the clouds go by, was because he didn't want to do them."
science_fiction,"There was only one possible answer, but Jack's horrified mind refused to believe it until he had fed the radar plots of the skiff's course into the computer."
science_fiction,"It was, to Helva, only a matter of the correct reproduction and diaphragmic control required by the music attempted."
humor,The difficulty was that each day seemed to produce its quota of details which must be cleaned up immediately.
science_fiction,"Anyhow, it was high time the boy was salted."
science_fiction,"He tried to ask the Lady Da how long they had had the drug, and how much longer they would have to wait before they had it again."
science_fiction,"The half-man lay on the ground, arteries pulsating prettily behind the half-transparent film which protected his abdominal cavity."
humor,Officials Meet on rubbish.
science_fiction,"For one thing, the organs of speech of the Ozagen natives differed somewhat from Earthmen's;;"
science_fiction,The buddies invariably took advantage of him.
science_fiction,It was clear that Langer had at last found a way to attract the Angel's attention.
humor,It seems to me that the first human being to reach one of these planets may well learn what it is to be a truly great and noble species .
humor,I see the girl but I don't see the car with slacks on .
science_fiction,"Ekstrohm, you and I will have a look  , Ryan said."
humor,One or two were writers of books;;
science_fiction,I am currently reproducing the Last Supper on the head of a screw .
science_fiction,"Oh, you can submit a requisition for a miracle if you want to make a fool of yourself."
science_fiction,"Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex."
humor,"That's the General's horse  , one of them cried out."
science_fiction,"My beloved ward, my perennial gadfly  , said the whining voice."
science_fiction,"He was the captain, so he could ask questions like that."
humor,"Now did Welch truly become the man of the hour, and everything that followed in the procedure of Justice was a new triumph for him."
humor,"One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ."
humor,Said the digger.
humor,"It was I who paid for our little home, the food, the liquor, the servants -- even Letch's bills at his tailor and the Los Angeles Athletic Club."
science_fiction,Asked the lady.
science_fiction,"No directives from Central is scarcely a cause for regret, but there happen to be eight other guys biting their fingernails to the quick just waiting for an invitation to board you, you beautiful thing ."
humor,He looked so comfortable being straight.
humor,This creates an amusing effect because its position in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong word.
humor,What is Letch interested in  ??
humor,The newspaper boys cracked jokes and again Barco's pride was aroused.
science_fiction,"Don't try anything violent, Stormy."
humor,I know something that is much more fun that we can do on our little lawn .
science_fiction,On Earth elections continued and a very advanced poet published a limited edition of verse consisting entirely of punctuation marks and spaces;;
science_fiction,Are you hungry  ??
humor,"They were inseparable, not because they were fond of each other, but because they wanted to keep an eye on each other, as they were keen rivals for social leadership."
science_fiction,I'll carry the tray .
science_fiction,Vocal peculiarities often become excessively irritating during prolonged intra-stellar distances and must be eliminated.
humor,No less ambiguous was the indefinity of a certain clergyman's sermon.
humor,"She arrived late and as she entered the party, noted that gentlemen seemed to be in the majority;;"
science_fiction,"It makes you wonder if this exploration business isn't all some big joke, and somebody has been everywhere before you even started ."
science_fiction,How wonderful to see your cherished self.
science_fiction,but he never slept.
humor,"The Albany Civic Opera's presentation of Spumoni's immortal Il Sevigli del Spegititgninino, with guest contralto Hattie Sforzt."
humor,"And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today,   Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ."
science_fiction,"No hands, for one thing."
science_fiction,They should not be sad.
science_fiction,"Yes, I heard it in the news ."
humor,He had made such a fuss about buying that second car that he knew he was vulnerable.
science_fiction,Take it easy .
science_fiction,"According to these needles, they're stone dead ."
humor,There is a bitter satire for a future writer in that .
humor,"However while in his cell awaiting trial for theft, Barco, in a fit of apprehension, made an attempt to take his own life."
humor,"First of all, the six figures of the Buddha you heisted -- four Siamese heads, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching position, and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a teakwood base."
science_fiction,"And, therefore, being in disgrace, they would not be cremated and their ashes flung to the winds in public ceremony."
humor,"The next day the police captain, in derision, organized what he termed   Welch's Wild Goose Chase ."
science_fiction,"No problem at all  , said Macneff."
humor,By such innocent actions are human tragedies sometimes set in motion.
science_fiction,"He no longer had to lie in his bunk all night, his eyes closed, pretending to sleep."
science_fiction,The pains themselves had not changed;;
humor,"Perhaps it was his misfortune, or good fortune, whichever way one looked at it, to belong to the former group, and he was struggling unconsciously to build up pressure in a world which demanded none, which was positively antagonistic to it."
science_fiction,She had activated one of her microscopic tools which she would later use for minute repairs to various parts of her control panel.
science_fiction,He staggered back to the group.
science_fiction,"But you should understand, Jack, that Hesperus and Lucifer are not long out of the nursery."
humor,"By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini."
science_fiction,"She could take care of herself and her ambulatory half, in any situation already recorded in the annals of Central Worlds and any situation its most fertile minds could imagine."
humor,Carpenters all wanted steady work and at the moment every mother's son for twenty miles around that could hammer nails for twenty-five dollars a day was working on the school job.
science_fiction,"Australia, the Philippine Islands, Japan, and northern China were inhabited by those members of the Haijac Union that spoke American."
humor,"They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village;;"
science_fiction,"Listen, Ekstrohm, I want to give you the benefit of every doubt."
humor,I suppose you all were playing and forgot  ??
science_fiction,The President of the United States proclaimed the first Sunday in November as   National Grandmothers' Day   and urged America to say it with flowers.
science_fiction,But you want to ask me when B'dikkat is going to come back with the needle .
humor,"Neither do I, but the Tjokorda Agoeng was good enough to translate, and I'll do as much for you."
humor,)
science_fiction,"Hello, Mike."
humor,We had just sat down.
science_fiction,"I can't tell you now the distance in lightyears or what star this was, though you can see it with the naked eye at night in this hemisphere."
humor,then he turned to me.
science_fiction,"But it didn't matter now whether he meant to invade the Holy of Holies, or was simply headed in that direction by accident."
science_fiction,"She found this immensely comforting, even though Mercer did not make much sense out of it."
science_fiction,"It looks like we did, when we made blastdown ."
humor,I wouldn't be in his shoes for all the rice in China.
science_fiction,"Mercer read it, and so had a few of the others, but they could not tell which man had done it."
humor,"Moreland fixed us each another drink, and said,   For God's sake, tell me something truly amusing ."
humor,"That's silly -- lemon in mouth  , she said."
humor,They both laughed and winked back.
humor,"The moonlit night was made for romance, and he had been looking at her soulfully for some time."
science_fiction,"Now look, there's work to be done and lots of it."
humor,But not General Burnside.
humor,"I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model   a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas  , which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity."
science_fiction,the question was too wide for the sparse English language.
humor,It would be fine publicity for the man who was willing to walk to the mayor's throne over the broken reputation of a helpless girl ! !
science_fiction,"Without an instant's transition, the green light that meant full fusion power winked on the board."
science_fiction,But he was homesick .
humor,"I paint the nothing  , he said once to Franz Kline and myself,   the nothing that is behind the something, the inexpressible, unpaintable ' tick ' in the unconscious, the ' spirit ' of the moment resting forever, suspended like a huge balloon, in non-time ."
humor,"Between 1935 and 1939 Letch and I made ten films together, each less successful, both artistically and commercially, than the one before it."
science_fiction,Mike was of legal age and presumed able to defend himself in the clinches.
science_fiction,"He tried to tell the Lady Da, but the words weren't quite straight."
science_fiction,"He tried to run after B'dikkat, to hug the lead spacesuit, to tell B'dikkat that he loved him."
humor,"It seemed that I would be the gainer if I accepted the peace and quiet, instead of carrying out my threats."
humor,"Then, having wrapped the lot in an afghan my dog customarily slept on, you lammed out the front door, considerately leaving it open for neighbors to discover."
science_fiction,Time magazine reviewed it and suggested that the Federation Assembly Daily Record should be translated into the medium.
science_fiction,His body processes only slowed down enough for him to dispell fatigue poisons.
humor,The manager of a movie theater received a telephone call from a woman who was equally indefinite.
humor,Was it an omen??
humor,"You are bound to get involved with people when you have children  , Fran had told me at our first meeting,   so it is good to know that those with whom you get involved are not just dreary little housewives and dull husbands, but People Who Do Things ."
science_fiction,"suspicion between member states still existed, but it was of about the same low order of virulence as the twentieth-century rivalry between Arizona and California over water supplies."
science_fiction,"The Lady Da, naked in the dusty plain, waved a hospitable hand and showed that there was a place for him to sit beside her."
humor,"As Mrs. Letch Feeley, was it any wonder that I, once the social arbiter of Filmdom, was excluded from the smart entertainments given by the Astaires, the Coopers, the Gables, the Colmans, the Rathbones, the Taylors, the Thalbergs and such devout, closely knit families as the Barrymores and the Crosbys??"
humor,What are my chances for taking Joe's place  ??
science_fiction,We had concluded that no race as ephemeral as yours could have had time to develop a sense of justice.
humor,"Barco, we've got the goods on you ! !"
science_fiction,"You are all right, my brother  ??"
science_fiction,"Soon  , said the half-man."
humor,"Say that again  , she pleaded."
science_fiction,"When he was back on his feet again and about to reinstall the fuses, however, he hesitated."
humor,'fess up -- don't you??
science_fiction,Then there had been another head beside his own.
humor,"Asked the children, whose reflexes and replies were invariably so admirably normal and predictable."
science_fiction,"And, in the half-year left before reaching their destination, the men would carry out whatever preparations were needed."
science_fiction,"Since he couldn't sleep anyway, he might as well stand their watches for them or write their reports."
humor,Before you use 'em the light company's got to run in a heavy line and you'll need a new fuse box for the extra circuits.
science_fiction,"Though they saw the old-style chemical rockets lift up from the field beyond B'dikkat's cabin, they did not make plans to hide among the frozen crop of transmuted flesh."
science_fiction,They would sleep while the Gabriel's drive would increase the acceleration to a point which the unfrozen bodies of the personnel could not have endured.
humor,"As Letch's antisocial conduct increased, our invitations decreased and my heart was in my mouth whenever I played hostess at a fashionable   screenland   gathering."
science_fiction,I don't see them.
science_fiction,It's plenty warm .
science_fiction,"And, if a man is married, he will automatically be given a divorce ."
humor,"The searching party consisted of the police captain, Welch, Barco, policemen with shovels, newspaper reporters, and cameramen."
humor,"Furiouser and furiouser  , I said."
humor,Indefinite reference also carries double-meaning where an allusion to one person or thing seems to refer to another.
science_fiction,Isn't it wonderful??
humor,"One of the many things that was so nice about her was that she always took your questions seriously, particularly your very, very serious questions."
science_fiction,Thank you.
humor,Can I bear it  ??
humor,"The battle of the drib-drool continues, but most of New York's knowing sophisticates of Abstract Expressionism are stamping their feet impatiently in expectation of V ( for Vindication ) Day, September first, when Augustus Quasimodo's first one-man show opens at the Guggenheim."
humor,We have complete facilities to accommodate 200 people .
humor,"He never rested until he discovered who the culprit was, and when he did, he vowed vengeance on Viola Lake if ever the chance came his way."
science_fiction,And apparently impossible.
science_fiction,"If you volunteer, you will be told where you're going after the ship leaves."
humor,Traitor indeed ! !
science_fiction,"Jack felt a wave of complete elation, but in a second it had vanished without a trace."
science_fiction,Ringing the ship.
humor,Her woolly-minded parent agreed.
humor,I wrote Bill in my last letter to forget that I had told him that I didn't mean to reconsider my decision not to change my mind -- and he seems to have misunderstood me .
humor,"After a while, we became aware that the money was disappearing as fast as we replenished it."
humor,It must be awfully good for them.
science_fiction,"B'dikkat grudgingly agreed, but he did not come out of the doorway."
humor,"Also, when she had bitten off half of the small radish, she found the suspense unbearable;;"
humor,He queried.
humor,"I would say depressed, not impressed  , I told him."
humor,Likewise the ivory Chinese female figure known as a   doctor lady   ( provenance Honan );;
humor,"It required strength, bravado, daring to commit murder."
science_fiction,Nothing less would serve.
science_fiction,"Is that -- I mean, ' Do you know '   --"
humor,A friend of my father's came to dinner.
science_fiction,I don't know.
science_fiction,"he studied them, compared them with what he had been taught as a nestling, struggling to bridge between languages, the one he thought with and the one he was learning to think in."
humor,"I'll try  , I said, and sat for a moment thinking."
humor,Just long enough to make you feel important.
science_fiction,"There was no question in Jack's mind of the good faith on one side, at least."
humor,"Max, in a fit of despair, takes Alicia and runs off for two marvelous weeks in Burbank ( Fink calls it   the most wonderful and lovely fourteen days in my whole life   ), at the end of which Alicia tragically contracts Parkinson's disease and dies."
humor,"It is as though  , I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows )   That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie ! !"
humor,"After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio   owed   the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was   stung   with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to   wipe out   all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings."
science_fiction,"No, it isn't  , Ekstrohm said."
science_fiction,For Mars  ??
humor,"( Norman Mailer ), but no one can deny that the screen crackles with electricity whenever he is on it."
science_fiction,"Hal saw in his mind the rest of Earth : Iceland, Greenland, the Caribbean Islands, and the eastern half of South America."
humor,"It was a   potboiler   made on a   shoestring   and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal."
science_fiction,"She would have a year in which to make up her mind, to choose a mate from a list selected by her gapt."
science_fiction,"He was a good impresser, that Pornsen."
science_fiction,"On impulse, he flipped up the heat control on his coverall and slid back the hatch of the bubble."
humor,He stiffened and rose to his feet.
humor,He was forced to wipe his eyes.
humor,"This nettled the children into the revelation of exact truth, a sacrifice of their secret superiority over grown people, but a victory in the wide fields of perpetration and illegitimate accomplishment."
science_fiction,"apparently her many torsos, stretched out along the ground, had a greater capacity for retaining the drug than did his body."
science_fiction,We all know what the dummies will do   -- he gestured at the hummocks in which the decorticated men were cradled --   and we all know what the new people will ask.
science_fiction,"It seemed unlikely that her crew, if either of them were alive, could even see the Ariadne, for they were passing her at a distance of nearly a light-year."
humor,Now Welch had a pet theory that everyone is guilty of breaking more laws than he ever gets caught at.
humor,I was just sayin' to him that I'm all ready now for anything else you want done .
humor,"Miss Pulova has a voice that Maria Callas once described as   like chipping teeth with a screw driver  , and her round, opalescent face becomes fascinatingly reflective of the emotions demanded by the role of Rosalie."
humor,"This evening, they were pushed in from the breakfast room, with odds and ends of dessert distributed over them."
science_fiction,Macneff stopped pacing to stare at Hal with his pale blue eyes.
humor,But this is a public park and it's a city ordinance that the statues cannot be crawled on .
science_fiction,Here they would lie in suspended animation for many years.
science_fiction,I feel fine ! !
science_fiction,But we never know how long a scene is going to take .
humor,"It isn't what the ideologist believes in, but what he hates, that puts the world in jeopardy."
science_fiction,"Her friends and professional associates would sympathize with her, not because she had lost a beloved husband, but because she had been married to a man who thought unrealistically."
science_fiction,Others admitted he was absolutely correct -- he never slept.
humor,"Fourteen of the sculptures you took possess properties of a most curious and terrifying nature, as you will observe when your limbs begin to wither and your hair falls out in patches."
humor,"My object, rather, is to alert you to an aspect or two of the affair that could have the gravest implications for you, far beyond the legal sanctions society might inflict."
humor,"So much for the tiresome facts, as familiar to you, I'm sure, as to the constables and state troopers who followed in your wake."
humor,He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.
science_fiction,I wasn't planning on jumping you.
science_fiction,"Some can be lonely in a crowd  , Nogol said elaborately."
science_fiction,Ekstrohm nudged it with a boot.
humor,"Reverently and raised their eyes, as if they were at a loss to describe how they felt about Kafka, which they were, because they had no opinions about Kafka, not having read Kafka."
science_fiction,I can talk.
science_fiction,This has got to be some kind of local phenomenon.
science_fiction,His chelas were required to assume the matsyendra posture dressed in hand-woven diapers while he read aloud from Rig-Veda and an assistant guru examined their purses in another room -- nothing was stolen;;
science_fiction,"Where do you get off, Ryan  ??"
humor,That was why he hadn't been able to finish the porch.
humor,"The innocence that they tried to conceal at the beginning is clearly destroyed forever when one of them, asking for a piece of lemon-meringue pie, gets a plate of English muffins instead."
humor,"When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said,   What size is your alligator  ??"
science_fiction,"For their purposes, oxygen and other gases were not drawn from the surrounding atmosphere through the medium of lungs but sustained artificially by solution in their shells."
humor,"And, when the slat finally shatters, we see him count the fragments, all the while muttering,   He loves me, he loves me not ."
humor,"In time, these minor manifestations will multiply and effloresce, riddling you with frambesia, the king's evil, sheep rot, and clonic spasm, until your very existence becomes a burden and you cry out for release."
science_fiction,There was no longer any need to hide.
humor,Francesca and Herbert were among the few people we knew in Catatonia.
science_fiction,He had to hide it.
science_fiction,Hesperus  ??
science_fiction,Suspicion wasn't new to him at all.
humor,It all seemed rather hopeless.
humor,They had to be told that one.
humor,He kissed her back.
humor,"Additionally, since you're going to be hors de combat pretty soon with sprue, yaws, Delhi boil, the Granville wilt, liver fluke, bilharziasis, and a host of other complications of the hex you've aroused, you mustn't expect to be lionized socially."
humor,"Just barely  , he said, and repeated his paraphrase :   The time has come  , the walrus said,   To speak of manic things, Of shots and shouts, and sealing dooms Of commoners and kings ."
humor,"Moreland went over to stare at his peacocks again, and then came back and sat down, restively."
science_fiction,"if Mike had had a finger in it, he had gotten away with it -- and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at all as long as he wasn't bothered."
humor,"They were clumsy, but they were beginning to catch on."
science_fiction,their mutual torture would be over.
science_fiction,Is that the name for the needle  ??
science_fiction,"But to the infuriation of scientists, for no known reason not all of them did."
science_fiction,"It seemed almost a magnification of the Galaxy itself, of the Milky Way, blown up by some master photographer."
humor,"Her uniform was of rich, raw silk, in a shade which matched her hair, skin, housepaint, and cats, and since she was so thin as to be almost shapeless, she rather resembled a frozen fish stick."
humor,Another brand of indefinite reference arises out of the use of the double verb.
humor,Evidently Bill was another of those men who simply don't understand women.
humor,"The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ."
humor,"The Dharma Dictionary, a list of highly unusual terms used in connection with Eurasian proto-senility cults."
humor,"An old-fashioned mother said to her modern daughter,   You must have gotten in quite late last night, dear."
humor,"No matter if your children are at the movies, in school, visiting their grandmother, or on a field trip in some distant city, they will be upon you magically within seconds after you pick up the phone."
humor,I hated being dragged into the salons of these aristocrats.
science_fiction,The word   church   which turned up over and over again among Jubal's words gave him knotty difficulty;;
humor,"Grazie had a small, slick head and her hair and skin were the color of golden toast."
humor,"The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of   Soak the rich ' ! !"
humor,Never once did he buy me a single gift and for our third anniversary he gave me a dislocated jaw.
humor,"Louise climbed onto a stool and clutched the hand with which I was trying to hold the phone, claiming my immediate attention on grounds of extreme emergency."
humor,"My heart was not in it, but, oddly enough, it remains the most financially successful picture of my career."
science_fiction,You mean a game with cards  ??
humor,They're not dessert ! !
humor,You think the Russians are getting ahead of us in comedy  ??
humor,"Well  , he said,   got your man fixed up nice down there."
humor,Letch had returned from his debacle unrepentant and more badly behaved than before.
science_fiction,He felt a puppyish need for company as strong as his earlier necessity for quiet.
science_fiction,Mary was as frozen below the navel as he.
science_fiction,Now comes this ! !
science_fiction,Oh ! !
science_fiction,Animals.
humor,"Naturally, Viola had no wish to remain, but she felt she couldn't leave so soon after her arrival, in all politeness to her host."
science_fiction,No one has come.
humor,"Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of   Volare ."
science_fiction,"He threw off the light blanket and swung his feet off the bunk, to the floor."
humor,I never thought I'd live to hear people chuckle and say   zounds   ! !
science_fiction,and it was getting bigger rapidly.
science_fiction,But where was it going??
humor,"As Charles Evans Hughes said,   Miss Poitrine's limitations as an actress are exceeded only by her logic as a litigant ."
science_fiction,"Get Happy, junior   ! !"
humor,"Once he disposed of these items which screamed so harshly for attention, he could undertake the things which really counted."
humor,Mr. Blatz sat down in the only unoccupied kitchen chair.
humor,"Each time Letch   went up   in his   lines  , I was the one to be patient, helpful and apologetic while he indulged in outbursts of temperament, profanity and abuse, blaming others, going into   sulks   and, on more occasions than I care to count, storming off the   set   for the rest of the day."
science_fiction,Of course .
science_fiction,A painful stab hit him in the abdomen.
science_fiction,"Well, it has to happen."
humor,They could be done or left undone and nobody really gave a damn.
science_fiction,But what was there to do??
humor,Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.
science_fiction,"Of the humans we left at the equator, one has discorporated and the others are sad ."
science_fiction,"Now I can only write, and that only when I get out of pain."
humor,Samples : He walked in upon her invitation.
humor,"We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially."
humor,"I am  , he said."
science_fiction,"Tell me more, Sandalphon ."
science_fiction,"For instance, Hesperus agreed to help me find my property, and I agreed to take him to Earth."
science_fiction,"It was a startling, almost numenous sight;;"
humor,"He evolved programs that plumbed new depths of bathos and besmirched whole networks, and quickly superseded his boss."
science_fiction,He forgot the order.
humor,"The three Indian brass deities, though -- Ganessa, Siva, and Krishna -- are an altogether different cup of tea."
science_fiction,"If the investigation committee spent months digesting the thoughtful food served them at the Laboratory School, they left Helva with a morsel as well."
science_fiction,That was almost worse than the first time .
humor,"An excited woman was making an emergency call over the phone :   Doctor, please come over right away."
humor,"Thus committed, action might follow."
humor,and she would snatch the finger-held half of the radish out to where she could inspect it.
humor,"This brief resume hardly does the book justice, but I heartily recommend it to all those who are engages with the major problems of our time."
science_fiction,Ekstrohm cleared his throat.
humor,"The daughter replied,   Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it."
science_fiction,Receiving .
humor,Then there was the caterer's ad which read :   are you getting married or having an affair??
humor,Very peculiar retribution indeed seems to overtake such jokers.
humor,"who were more ingratiating than gracious, more personalities than persons."
humor,"It turned out to be a life of Martin Luther, of all things ! !"
humor,"No  , she smiled,   objected ."
science_fiction,"I don't know, Stormy."
humor,"I realized that Hamlet was faced with an entirely different problem, but his agony could have been no greater."
humor,"What you were looking for ( unless you make a hobby of collecting old tennis rackets and fly screens ) eludes me, but to judge from phonograph records scattered about a fumed-oak Victrola."
humor,Too many of our writers seem to be interested only in creatures that crawl out of the woodwork or from under the rock .
humor,"There  , said Mr. Mills."
science_fiction,Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.
science_fiction,"They walked from midnight to noon, noon to midnight, and came to the beast sprawled on its side."
science_fiction,"Mercer, despite his happiness, wept a little at the strange fate of B'dikkat."
humor,"For example, probably very few people know that the word   visrhanik   that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb   bouanahsha   : to salivate."
science_fiction,"Yet, if he used all of the little means at his disposal, he would be instructing his students wrongly."
humor,They had protested that that wasn't any surprise.
humor,"Then, noting neither the absence of his footwear nor the presence of the rosebuds, he made his way to the Byzantine room and, with his usual dignity, mounted the rostrum."
humor,Perhaps he had better have someone help him put up the pegboard and build the workbench -- someone who knew what he was about.
science_fiction,What's a ' scene '  ??
science_fiction,"Therefore to Helva, the problem that she couldn't open her mouth to sing, among other restrictions, did not bother her."
humor,"It was only the other day that I saw something of yours, about something or other, in some magazine ."
humor,No.
science_fiction,The instruments don't show them .
humor,A woman met a famous author at a literary tea.
science_fiction,Time had no meaning.
humor,What's the name of his other leg  ??
science_fiction,Ekstrohm was startled in the morning by a banging on the hatch of his bubble.
science_fiction,He was the dormitory gapt when I went to college and thought I was getting away from him.
humor,It-wit is a misnomer because it covers slips as well as wit.
humor,"Stopping the cars at a fork in the road, he got out, paced off a certain distance to a spot between two shrub-covered sand hills, and indicated a location."
science_fiction,We all know when it is going to happen.
science_fiction,He hesitated.
humor,I knew that both these cynics were waiting with impatience for the dramatic moment when Viola was called to the stand.
science_fiction,Ryan told him what he could do then.
humor,Mr. Crumb was laid up with a bad cold.
humor,it is manic as a man .
science_fiction,There was no dream of escape for these people.
science_fiction,"The secret little corner of his mind, which stayed sane through happiness and pain, made him wonder about B'dikkat."
humor,The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.
humor,And I found a radish.
science_fiction,Your brothers have been found.
science_fiction,The system of indicating gender varied according to tense.
humor,"Now the Czarship had not affected my own sense of social values, but Mother had attained a reflected glory through it, which had opened the doors of Los Angeles-Pasadena Society to her."
humor,"I thought, and wondered what kind of homesteads such odd pioneers would establish in this suburban frontier;;"
science_fiction,She instinctively regulated her   sight   until the skin lost its cratered look and the pores assumed normal proportions.
science_fiction,Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and listened to the sounds of the night on Yancey-6 138.
science_fiction,"Her subject was large -- a copy of the Last Supper -- and her canvas, small -- the head of a tiny screw."
humor,In recent years gagwriters have discovered this brand of blunder and thus the misplaced modifier has acquired a new habitat in the gagline.
humor,Welch was wild with delight.
humor,The sound mockery of sheep is like the salubrious horse laugh .
humor,I couldn't feel at home among them.
science_fiction,"He spoke through the public address box built into the cabin, and his gigantic voice roared out over the empty plain, so that the pink herd of talking people stirred gently in their happiness and wondered what their friend B'dikkat might be wanting to tell them."
humor,"Then, my mother blushed at this small lie;;"
science_fiction,"Well  , remarked one gentleman who had been forced to accompany his wife,   the good Lord can eat where angels fear to tread ."
science_fiction,She lived and was given a name.
science_fiction,Presently his water brother said breathlessly.
science_fiction,The surveyor looked sidewise at the captain.
humor,"We now have not only what has been called over here the comedy of menace but we also have horror jokes, magazines known as Horror Comics, and sick comedians."
science_fiction,"Suppose it is something right on the planet, native to it."
science_fiction,Eternity is no time for recriminations.
science_fiction,Mike??
science_fiction,You need a linguist  ??
humor,"If you saw the drama called Rhinoceros  , I said,   think of the effect it would have on an audience of rhinos when the actor on stage suddenly begins turning into a rhinoceros."
humor,"The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit."
science_fiction,"Macneff raised his hands apologetically and said,   You are horrified, of course."
science_fiction,She was ready for her great adventures and the arrival of her mobile partner.
science_fiction,"If I get a low M. R., I do so because I want it that way or my dark self does."
science_fiction,"Almost the whole experience of mankind pointed toward suspicion, not trust, as the safest and sanest attitude toward all outsiders."
science_fiction,"Helva's civilization was not without busy, do-good associations, exploring possible inhumanities to terrestrial as well as extraterrestrial citizens."
science_fiction,Suppose it was not us that killed these aliens.
humor,In our age of Science and Angst it seems to me more brave to stay on Earth and explore inner man than to fly far from the sphere of our sorrow and explore outer space .
science_fiction,"Each man had a bubble to himself, privacy after the long period of enforced intimacy on board the ship."
science_fiction,the Old Ones have cherished him .
humor,"On their way, they stopped at every gas station along the main boulevards to question the attendants."
science_fiction,"But he was looking forward to snow -- seeing for himself that each tiny crystal of the water of life was a unique individual, as he had read -- walking barefoot, rolling in it."
humor,Journalism supplies us with an endless run of such slips.
humor,"A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on   The Civic Spirit of the Southland  , in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside."
science_fiction,Why accuse a shipmate of being behind this  ??
science_fiction,First I've got to intercept my brothers before they get any deeper into trouble.
science_fiction,"When she awoke, she was the ship."
humor,"Marcellus, the hero, is beset from all sides by the problems of approaching manhood."
humor,Every new scandal which would provide more   copy   for Marshall's pen would thus mean more publicity for Welch.
science_fiction,Her initial intelligence tests registered above normal and her adaptation index was unusually high.
science_fiction,Then maybe it was the shockwave we set up.
humor,"In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ."
science_fiction,"It took him a few seconds to put his thoughts in order, and then he got up from the bunk where he had been resting, sleeplessly."
humor,"Since the latter obviously require an audacity you do not possess, you may perhaps suppose that I am taunting you as socially inferior."
humor,"And at three different times during our turbulent marriage strange girls, with the commonest of accents, telephoned to announce to me that Letch had sired their unborn children ! !"
humor,Have you ever heard of Thuggee??
science_fiction,"there was much to grok, loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy, how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not, the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing --"
science_fiction,"His heart, he discovered, was pounding."
science_fiction,the purpose was less immediate.
humor,"You ought to shake  , Arlene advised them."
science_fiction,I was lonely always .
humor,Practically the only enthusiasm they showed was when they were discussing   names  ;;
humor,He was very rude.
humor,My mother constituted herself the voice of all of us.
science_fiction,Sigmen himself must have foreseen it.
humor,"Imagine being able to laugh and wink when you're like the top part of that picture frame at home  , one of them said."
humor,Arlene had taught them a new way to have fun in their little private area;;
science_fiction,These members would then unthaw the rest of the personnel.
humor,"In matters of exact information, that kept her one step behind developments;;"
humor,"He was bitter and resentful toward her, personally resentful."
science_fiction,"The lady's eyes, unmagnified, bugged out."
science_fiction,he had a time keeping the tears from welling to his own eyes as he stood in the crowd in the observation dome.
science_fiction,Said Hal.
humor,It all did look very efficient and shipshape.
humor,Such as  ??
science_fiction,"Instead of kicking feet, Helva's neural responses started her wheels;;"
science_fiction,"For Helva was destined to be the   brain   half of a scout ship, partnered with a man or a woman, whichever she chose, as the mobile half."
science_fiction,"There were unclaimed square miles of seating space around them, but he appreciated the kindliness of her gesture none the less."
humor,He was laughed off the screen.
science_fiction,"The sail was still unfurled, though there were a good many holes in it, as Langer had predicted would be the case by now."
humor,One of the children maneuvered out of range of the poking index finger.
humor,not Blanche.
science_fiction,"Always before, it had taken five minutes to --"
humor,A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain :   I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.
science_fiction,All the dead animals laying around the ship .
science_fiction,"Perhaps, even, though this is too much to wish, find the Forerunner himself  ??"
humor,She would try to see over the bulge of her cheeks and somewhat under her teeth to the place where she was biting.
humor,"If you are thinking of giving him a berth, be sure to make it a wide one ."
humor,"Although it was a mere fragment of the victim's remains, it was enough."
humor,Bananas   ! !
science_fiction,Some doctors had informed him he was mistaken about this.
science_fiction,"Fosterite bishops, after secret conclave, announced the Church's second Major Miracle : Supreme Bishop Digby had been translated bodily to Heaven and spot-promoted to Archangel, ranking with-but-after Archangel Foster."
humor,This saleslady was a failure in the dress department and was transferred to the shoe department.
science_fiction,He could see in almost total darkness.
humor,"The heart  , I said finally,   is now either in the throat or the mouth or the stomach or the shoes."
science_fiction,These critters went real sudden .
humor,"I discovered that the girls had shrewdly vacated the kitchen, and were playing quietly in the living room."
science_fiction,"Hesperus and Lucifer  , Jack said,   show that we do ."
humor,"For it seems that Barco, fancying himself a ladies' man ( and why not, after seven marriages??"
humor,"Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired."
science_fiction,"Yes, we have quite a few years of voice training, madam  , remarked Helva calmly."
science_fiction,"They could still read the opening :   Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in."
humor,"I was saved from making the decision as the phone rang, and the girls were upon me instantly."
science_fiction,Did not the Forerunner predict in his Time and the World Line that such a planet would be found??
science_fiction,"She asked hopefully, as she recognized the Scout Service uniform."
humor,There's something here   ! !
humor,"a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown   starlet  , leaving me   high and dry   to get home as best I could."
science_fiction,"No helmets  , the captain answered."
humor,"It might be that certain people were born with a compulsion to complicate their lives, while others could live blissfully motionless almost indefinitely, like lizards in the sun, too indolent to blink their eyes."
humor,"According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage."
science_fiction,Oh .
humor,Add things as you find you need 'em .
humor,"Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow."
science_fiction,They are on their way here .
humor,"The other remarked, in a happy laughter,   That's a funny old horse ."
humor,"I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor."
science_fiction,"But since he had failed to anticipate it, he lost the five minutes anyhow, in plotting an intercept orbit."
science_fiction,You shouldn't have tried to.
humor,The misplaced modifier is another species more honored in the observance of obscurity than in the breach.
science_fiction,The many-bodied girl lay near him.
science_fiction,"Had there been another   brain   ship at the Base at the moment, Helva would have been guided to make the first move."
science_fiction,In the meantime he was pleased with the warm night and the still more pleasing company of his water brother.
science_fiction,Ryan asked.
science_fiction,Jubal would not have minded it if service had not gone to pieces.
science_fiction,A ship run by a human brain could not run rogue or insane with the power and resources Central had to build into their scout ships.
science_fiction,Mercer thought that she looked very distinguished and charming.
humor,And yet it is not.
humor,"Just you wait  , said Arlene again, as though she were discovering the pleasantly tingling insinuations of that handy little sturdy statement."
humor,"They require, for existence, a brave spirit and a high heart, and where do you find these??"
humor,He asked.
science_fiction,Acquiring a repertoire from the Laboratory library was no problem to one trained to perfect recall.
humor,"Senator  , said an interviewer,   your constituents can't understand from your speech last night just how you stand on the question ."
humor,The effect on the intellectuals among his audience may well be imagined.
humor,"This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool :   Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance."
humor,You do  ??
science_fiction,The dice were cast.
humor,"No  , he said."
humor,Ridiculous   ! !
science_fiction,I get no readings from them at all.
humor,Mr. Blatz was already taking measurements for a shelf above the kitchen sink.
science_fiction,"Helva's hum then had a curious vibrancy, a warm, dulcet quality even in its aimless chromatic wanderings."
humor,Mr. Crombie poked at it gingerly with his foot.
science_fiction,He endured the ministrations of the dromozoa without screams or movement.
science_fiction,Yet there was some precedent for it.
humor,He didn't even ask the cost of this collection.
science_fiction,"Had he decided, perhaps, that the center of the cloud was a center of government, instead of a center of life and faith  ??"
science_fiction,This is not wholly a reasoning process -- a computer cannot do it all -- and even in an Angel it takes time.
humor,These are but a sampling of the insults I endured.
science_fiction,Ekstrohm never slept.
science_fiction,"Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end."
humor,"Readers of the Reader's Digest are familiar with such items which often appear in its lists of verbal slips, like the ad in a California paper that advertised   House for rent."
humor,"But since the gourmet insisted that it is done that way at the most fashionable dinners, the girl reluctantly agreed."
science_fiction,Mercer smiled at her through his happiness.
science_fiction,"Love to you, my ward ."
humor,It has identified itself with the very tension and terror it once did so much to alleviate.
humor,"Whether the pair of Sudanese ivory carvings you lifted really possess the juju to turn your livers to lead, as a dealer in Khartoum assured me, I am not competent to say."
science_fiction,"Fuming, helpless, he watched them pass him."
humor,But the discussion was academic.
science_fiction,"In the meantime, we might be thinking on the problem all these dead beasts represent."
science_fiction,"Okay, I'm Happy."
humor,They had honeymooned in Rome;;
humor,"Needless to say, I was furious at this unparalleled intrusion upon free enterprise."
humor,everyone was very high on Rome that year.
humor,Her upper lip lifted slightly.
science_fiction,He was my gapt in the creche.
science_fiction,"We misjudged you  , he said slowly."
science_fiction,"From here on out, the Ariadne was going to be hotter than any space cruiser man had ever dreamed of."
science_fiction,"Maybe because they have had virtually no radioactive exposure and don't have any R's stored up, they could take a lot without harm ."
humor,But he was always persuaded out.
humor,Each had developed a hair-trigger chuckle and the habit of saying   zounds   ! !
humor,Welch wanted to know why.
humor,"Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised,   Won't you hold on a second, please  , I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia."
science_fiction,I thought perhaps there were no partners available and I've had no directives from Central .
humor,"Imagine you won't get your allowance if you're caught not smiling -- or smiling with your lips trembling too much  , Arlene suggested."
science_fiction,"There was a keening of wind, and a cracking of the frozen ground."
humor,"This could be told chiefly from a sort of head-tossing and prancing, a horselike balkiness of demeanor."
humor,"It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement."
science_fiction,Of course.
science_fiction,But I might have known ! !
humor,Why in the world couldn't he live in one place the way everyone else seemed to??
humor,"Barco, his state of apprehension gone, never to return, had assumed a matter-of-factness which remained his principal attitude from that time on."
science_fiction,Statistical average and all.
humor,"We no longer have Tom Moore's and Longfellow's ' heart for any fate ', either  , I said."
humor,Those were especially the ones that all other grownups laughed at loudest.
humor,"This clergyman should have referred to Shakespeare's dictum :   So-so is a good, very good, very excellent maxim."
science_fiction,"Out of that agreement, though not by any easy road, eventually emerged the present world hegemony of the United Nations;;"
science_fiction,"The planet is very low in radiation from mineral deposits, and the atmosphere seems to shield out most of the solar output."
science_fiction,The Earthmen made camp outside the spaceship.
science_fiction,Mercer never noticed the needle touch his arm.
science_fiction,But the third ship came back several years ago and reported
humor,"Heywood Broun wrote :   Belle Poitrine is the most original thinker since Caligula  , and even F.D.R. had to concede that   if the rest of this nation showed the foresight and patriotism of Miss Poitrine, America would rapidly resemble ancient Babylon and Nineveh ."
humor,"He made his way to his host's bedroom where he carefully brushed himself off, neatly arranged his hair, and painstakingly selected his hat from the many on the bed."
science_fiction,"Ekstrohm walked through the alien glass and looked up at the unfamiliar constellations, smelling the frozen sterility of the thin air."
humor,"Up to date, however, his garden was still more or less of a mess, he hadn't even started his workshop and if there was a meadow pond in the neighborhood he hadn't found it."
humor,"But, at the beginning, this stayed just in the air."
humor,"There was to be roast chicken with dressing, giblet gravy, asparagus, new peas with a sprig of mint, creamed onions, and mashed potatoes -- all chosen, prepared, and cooked by Viola herself."
science_fiction,A colossal campaign opened to sell more sexual organs of plants and Mrs. Joseph (   Shadow of Greatness   ) Douglas was quoted as saying :   I would no more sit down without flowers on my table than without serviettes .
humor,"a   splash party   at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour;;"
science_fiction,"He turned back to the screens, the crucial, conclusive phrase on his lips."
science_fiction,The ship always chose its own partner.
science_fiction,It might have been several days.
humor,"Instead of being depressed by this news, Mr. Crombie was actually relieved."
science_fiction,"Well, let's take a ground-level look at the country around here ."
humor,But it was small consolation.
science_fiction,Warm enough to swim -- real Indian summer.
science_fiction,"All you have to do is ask  , he retorted hopefully."
science_fiction,The expense and time involved are astronomical.
science_fiction,"In his great and glorious wisdom, he knew that our enemies the Israelites must not be able to read therein what we planned ."
science_fiction,They curl up and die at the sight of something strange and alien -- like a spaceship .
science_fiction,Fine .
humor,I said.
science_fiction,Yes.
humor,But you must have heard it said that the drawing-room disappeared forever with the somnolent years of James and the antic heyday of Coward.
science_fiction,"Forgive me, Sandalphon  , said Hal."
humor,"I made plans for the afternoon -- doing the breakfast and luncheon dishes all at once, making the beds, and then maybe painting the kitchen."
humor,"Nevertheless, like any other human being upon whom the spotlight of the world plays continually, Khrushchev, the anti-personality cultist, has become a comic actor, or thinks he has."
humor,"A couple of years back, I occupied a Village apartment whose outer staircase contained the type of niche called a   coffin turn ."
science_fiction,he had not known it until asked.
science_fiction,What did you do with them  ??
humor,Now would you care to have us say that you were misquoted in regard to it  ??
science_fiction,You've been hiding things from me and Nogol every jump we've made with you.
humor,and that action always caused her to lift her lip from the sting of the thing.
humor,"Well, ordinarily he is, except ( as the Wheel of the Law specifies ) toward impious folk who steal, disturb, or maltreat the Presence."
science_fiction,Then it is a matter of pleasure;;
humor,Moreland demanded.
humor,Another specimen of such double-entendre is illustrated by a woman in a department store.
humor,And how right she was.
science_fiction,"Thus events occurred, and victims changed in appearance, and new ones arrived."
humor,"And it is thought by many who think about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De Kooning."
science_fiction,"Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and thought, the camp is quiet."
humor,Welch summoned jail officials to Barco's cell.
humor,"You have unwittingly set in motion forces so malign, so vindictive, that it would be downright inhumane of me not to warn you about them."
science_fiction,Therefore
humor,"but then Arlene got another tone in a hurry, and she said,   If it wasn't for these dear children   --."
humor,nobody could have told why.
science_fiction,There was no ring of animal corpses.
humor,There are even publications called Sick and Mad.
science_fiction,"Was B'dikkat a crazy slave to his own duty or was he a man who had hopes of going back to his own planet some day, surrounded by a family of little cow-people resembling himself??"
humor,"Sometimes, as at this juncture, he did not."
science_fiction,"I still bear scars on my back where Pornsen, my gapt, whipped me because I had not learned my lessons well enough."
science_fiction,"A long time later, by cosmic clock, she said,   Mike??"
humor,"By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true."
humor,"Yes, sir  , she said,   is that definite  ??"
humor,"The next time we saw him, he was a changed person;;"
humor,"he had aged thirty years, and his face, the color of tallow, was crisscrossed with wrinkles, as though it had been wrapped in chicken wire."
science_fiction,"Plus the fact that Siddo not only had the normal ( to Earthmen ) three genders of masculine, feminine, and neuter, but the two extra of inanimate and spiritual."
science_fiction,He is the one responsible for my getting such low M. R.'s.
humor,We don't .
humor,"The sweep of space, the delicate counterbalance of the white masses, the over-all completeness and unity, the originality and imagination, all entitle it to be called an authentic masterpiece."
humor,"Here's a household hint : if you can't find your children, and get tired of calling them, pick up the phone."
science_fiction,B'dikkat was sterilizing his knives.
humor,"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained  , he said, leaving the biter bit -- and bitter."
humor,"She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields."
science_fiction,Same as with the Popes.
science_fiction,There was nothing he could do but wait.
humor,"Never mind  , Arlene had said, after the policeman had left, having pursued the usual unco-operative course of grownups."
humor,"Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish."
humor,"But then, when you stuck things into the holes, why didn't they come right out again??"
humor,"Recently, by the way, I received a questionnaire in which I was asked whether or not I was non-institutionalized ."
humor,"For example, to move ( as the score requires ) from the lowest F-major register up to a barely audible N minor in four seconds, not skipping, at the same time, even one of the 407 fingerings, seems a feat too absurd to consider, and it is to the flautist's credit that he remained silent throughout the passage."
humor,There was no compulsion behind them.
humor,"It is not an entirely happy book, as Mrs. Fink soon becomes jealous of Alicia and, in retaliation, refuses to continue to scrape the algae off her glass."
humor,Bermuda was not in style that year.
science_fiction,But there's one possibility I particularly don't like .
science_fiction,"They did not have the wit to follow the stars in their courses, to exchange names with each other, to harvest the experience of each for the wisdom of all."
science_fiction,At last Gabriel spoke.
humor,"As we find out at the end, it is not the stool ( symbolizing Doris, therefore the English ) that he is punishing but the piece of Venetian blind."
science_fiction,Ben and Stinky went home an hour ago and people started going to bed .
science_fiction,Mercer himself could not tell how long it was before B'dikkat came back.
humor,She inquired.
science_fiction,"Sometimes B'dikkat took the new ones, resting in the everlasting sleep of their burned-out brains, in a ground-truck to be added to other herds."
humor,"Then, they had to get up and be General Burnside."
humor,"My enemies were only too anxious to level against me such charges as   reactionary  ,   robber baroness  , and even   traitor   ! !"
humor,"We grind, too  , he said."
humor,In front of it would be his workbench.
humor,"the doors of the D train slid shut, and as I dropped into a seat and, exhaling, looked up across the aisle, the whole aviary in my head burst into song."
science_fiction,"They picnicked by the pool, then lay back on the grass and looked at stars."
science_fiction,What are they doing on Mars  ??
humor,"I sighed, thinking that among other things, people here seemed to be those who would have to cut down if they earned less than $85,000 yearly;;"
humor,"but the old fellow, a lifelong teetotaler, refused it, and no more was thought of the matter."
humor,"No one could dislike them, I thought."
science_fiction,Another pause;;
science_fiction,"He scanned a few lines on the social repercussions of a celebrated nineteenth century sex murderer, but he couldn't seem to concentrate on the weighty, pontifical, ponderous style."
science_fiction,"L'Unita and Hoy published identical denunciations of Short's elevation, l'Osservatore Romano and the Christian Science Monitor ignored it, Times of India snickered at it, and the Manchester Guardian simply reported it -- the Fosterites in England were few but extremely militant."
science_fiction,"Easy  , Nogol confirmed."
science_fiction,"Lady Da smiled at him often, but there was no love in this place."
humor,)
humor,"She would sometimes even get a little hard on you, she took you so seriously."
humor,Mr. Gorboduc was finally in command of his mind again.
humor,Another less ambiguous case read as follows :   The bearer of this letter has served me for two years to his complete satisfaction.
humor,"Since brevity is the soul of ambiguity as well as wit, newspaper headlines continually provide us with amusing samples."
humor,The litigation was costly and seemingly endless.
science_fiction,Breath control and the proper enunciation of vowel sounds within the oral cavity appeared to require the most development and practice.
humor,"He at once cancels the celebrations and, buckling on his scimitar, stumbles blindly from the house, where he is hit and killed by a passing oxcart."
science_fiction,"When B'dikkat cut the head from Mercer's thigh, he felt the knife grinding against the cartilage which held the head to his own body."
humor,Albert Einstein was quoted as saying :   The workings of the woman's mind amaze me .
science_fiction,Is ! !
humor,"My unscientific friend does not believe that human stature is measurable in terms of speed, momentum, weightlessness, or distance from earth, but is a matter of the development of the human mind."
science_fiction,of curiosity;;
science_fiction,"Mercer saw the sun rise on occasion, closed his eyes briefly, and opened them to see stars shining."
humor,"View takes in five counties, two bedrooms ."
humor,It wasn't very funny.
science_fiction,"If you substitute ' atom ' for ' angel ', the problem is not insoluble, given the metallic content of the pin in question ."
humor,for she knew and we knew that it was cowardice that had made one more radish that night just too impossible a strain.
humor,"You danced two tangos and a paso doble, which must have been fairly enervating in that milieu."
science_fiction,"But you aren't exactly the model of a surveyor, you know."
humor,She continued.
humor,"Needless to say, my art suffered drastically during this turbulent period."
science_fiction,I'm so happy to be here .
humor,Then at least he would have a place to hang his tools and something to work on.
humor,"Oh, that is demonstrable  , I told him."
science_fiction,"The curve on the card the computer spat back at him couldn't be argued with, however."
humor,Do you think we need a new Henry James to re-explore the Anglo-American scene  ??
humor,Do you see that pretty girl standing next to the car with slacks on  ??
science_fiction,"This continued most of the week following that ill-starred trip to church, during which period Mike stayed in his room and usually in a trance so deep that Jubal would have pronounced him dead had he not seen it before."
science_fiction,He thought.
science_fiction,"I give you my word I'm not trying to pull some stupid kind of joke, or to deliberately foul up the expedition."
humor,"He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T squares and plumb lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for."
science_fiction,Her answer was not in words.
humor,"Mr. Mills had done some figuring on a scrap of paper and given him the various kinds of boards and two-by-fours which, properly handled, would, he had assured him, turn into a workbench."
humor,They recall Byron's classic comment :   I wish he would explain his explanation .
humor,"Ah, you're too old  , was invariably his ungallant and untrue retort whenever I suggested   starting a family ."
science_fiction,"When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself."
humor,"Without further discussion he appeared the next morning with a pile of boards sticking over the end of his light truck and proceeded with the paneling, which he then stained and waxed according to his taste."
humor,"Nor, as Manny said, had the notoriety done my career   any good ."
humor,"I can lead you to every one of the bodies, and there ain't four, nor five, nor six of 'em -- there's seven ! !"
science_fiction,"But we must know if this is in accordance with your customs, and must have your agreement they will not misuse the power we put in their hands, to our hurt ."
humor,That had happened on the day when two other unusual things had occurred.
humor,"One could hear a very faint, ladylike sigh of relief."
humor,Mr. Crombie watched his wife with an anxious expression.
science_fiction,"And, from the first, he faced a difficult task."
humor,This baffling lack of distinct details recalls the secretary whose employer was leaving the office and told her what to answer if anyone called in his absence.
science_fiction,"This time B'dikkat smiled pleasantly at the little head which had grown out of Mercer's thigh -- a sleeping child's head, covered with light hair on top and with dainty eyebrows over the resting eyes."
science_fiction,What would I want with them  ??
science_fiction,Ryan hefted his bulk up and supported it on one elbow.
humor,"He liked children, in a loathsome kind of way;;"
science_fiction,He did not count time.
humor,She kissed him passionately upon his reappearance.
humor,"And then Eichmann was quoted as saying, in non-English, that Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews was nonsense ."
humor,Mr. Crombie couldn't remember his saying any such thing.
humor,But do you know something curious  ??
science_fiction,"Now that he knew himself to be self he was free to grok ever closer to his brothers, merge without let."
humor,"Similarly, when a reporter once questioned Lincoln in cryptic fashion, Lincoln refused to make any further statement."
science_fiction,Hesperus was in there.
humor,He was the funniest man.
humor,"No, not Bermuda."
humor,"Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story."
science_fiction,Oh.
science_fiction,Most of their original objections about   shells   were overridden by the relief that these hideous ( to them ) bodies were mercifully concealed.
humor,"A blue suit  , he answered."
science_fiction,Shell people used their own vocal cords and diaphragms but sound issued through microphones rather than mouths.
humor,It wasn't his fault that these things were so.
science_fiction,"The front part of my head was called a face, and I could talk with it."
science_fiction,"Once, like you, I had one head, two hands, ten fingers on my hands."
science_fiction,Of course we have before us the example of the great races at the galactic center;;
humor,In real life.
science_fiction,"Southern China, all of southeast Asia, southern India and Ceylon, these states of the Malay Federation spoke Bazaar."
humor,Barco was clearly a   nut .
humor,they could tell exactly what it was.
humor,"The puzzled saleslady inquired,   How large is your house, Madam  ??"
humor,What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??
science_fiction,"There was night and day, but no setting of crops, no change of season, no generations of men."
science_fiction,He hesitated;;
science_fiction,The description of the Siddo syntax was very restricted.
science_fiction,"He would no longer have to see that fat face, hear that whining voice"
science_fiction,"the sounds made by these organs were, therefore, dissimilar."
humor,"I should say it is the turning of courts of law into veritable theatres for sex dramas, involving clergymen and parishioners, psychiatrists and patients."
humor,"Actually, it was inaudible to anyone not expecting it."
humor,"But it is the wooden sculpture from Bali, the one representing two men with their heads bent backward and their bodies interlaced by a fish, that I particularly call to your attention."
science_fiction,"We can breathe out there, all right."
science_fiction,Shell people were schooled to examine every aspect of a problem or situation before making a prognosis.
humor,"he was talking to himself thirteen to the dozen and smoking two cigars at once, clearly a man in extremis."
science_fiction,"If I die, I die because I willed it so."
science_fiction,Recovering the property was much less important .
humor,"A dead armadillo, the sole occupant of the stage, symbolizes the crisis and destruction of the Old Order."
science_fiction,"I ought to be asleep, too, but I felt like a snack."
science_fiction,"Standard years -- eighty-four years, seven months, three days, two hours, eleven and one half minutes."
science_fiction,Kiss me again .
science_fiction,"Hal knew that when that side of Earth rotated into the night zone, Sigmen City would blaze out into space."
science_fiction,Ekstrohm scowled.
humor,"Soon we were deep in a conversation that was interrupted many times by little things like Jennie's holding her breath and pretending to black out, Miranda's dumping the contents of the sugar bowl on the table, and various screeches, thuds, and giggles."
humor,I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.
humor,"Let's talk about books  , Moreland said."
science_fiction,She had lost the extra torsos.
humor,"No, he didn't know of any handyman-carpenter."
science_fiction,"now he felt light and gay and clear-headed, ready for the many actions he saw spreading out before him."
humor,"I was ready, like Portia, to present my own brief."
humor,)
science_fiction,"Take my word, can't you  ??"
science_fiction,Ekstrohm stood up.
humor,"In fact, it was not until the King of Spain had visited at Pickfair that Mary and Doug were beckoned to cross the sacred barriers which separate Los Angeles and Pasadena from the hoi-polloi."
humor,Jennie had shouted each time.
science_fiction,"Me, I know the mind of an officer works in a strange and unfathomable manner ."
humor,It wasn't long before I sensed that there was something deeper than overvaulting ambition back of his desire for Viola's destruction.
science_fiction,"Nevertheless, you were its agent."
humor,How could anyone know what to do with an assortment like that??
science_fiction,"Instead of inflecting a verb or using an unattached particle to indicate the past or future, Siddo used an entirely different word."
humor,They were   personalities .
humor,Replied the Senator.
humor,Asked one of the children.
humor,"Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference."
humor,"Later on, the children told her further about somersaulting."
science_fiction,"but the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics nevertheless did eventually agree on an atomic bomb test ban, and a sort of provisional acceptance of each other's good intentions on this limited question."
humor,"The incident, aside from reflecting on Welch's political career, had all but wrecked his home life."
science_fiction,The angry burnt-red face of Ryan greeted him.
humor,I myself hear it said constantly -- in drawing-rooms.
science_fiction,He wasn't likely to come down with hot chills and puzzling striped fever.
science_fiction,Digby heaved a deep ethereal sigh.
humor,"Then, I remembered that the girls had had a banana for dessert every day for the last week."
humor,"they had chosen Catatonia because of its reputation for excellent schools, beaches, and abundance of names."
science_fiction,"And, as Hal found out, obviously mistaken in many cases."
humor,Classified ads are also chockfull of misrelated constructions.
humor,"After a few tortuous moments of wondering who   he   is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of a mute piece of sculpture."
science_fiction,"If it was intentional, it was now also unnecessary;;"
humor,Two friends were talking.
humor,It'll be a lot better if you come clean .
science_fiction,Where do I start  ??
science_fiction,"Not so obvious to her, but of more importance to her teachers, Helva ingested the precepts of her conditioning as easily as she absorbed her nutrient fluid."
humor,S. J. Perelman
humor,Another case involves a newspaper reporter who tripped up a politician.
humor,He's old .
science_fiction,"The history of disarmament agreements, for instance, had been unreassuringly dismal;;"
humor,"It's somewhat off the beaten track, to be sure, but therein lies its variety and charm."
science_fiction,Where the hell did he get off threatening to report any laxness on their part to the captain??
humor,"( Sometimes I think you need only one rule for cooking : if you can't put garlic in it, put chocolate in it."
humor,The newspaper too is the favorite habitat of the anatomical.
science_fiction,The same use of an entirely different word applied for all the other tenses.
humor,The only trouble was that he himself was tied up on the school job.
humor,That was where the pegboard would go on which he would hang his hand tools.
science_fiction,"No  , Ekstrohm said,   No, I didn't know that ."
science_fiction,"Six months later, Hal Yarrow stood in the observation dome of the Gabriel and watched the ball of Earth dwindle above him."
science_fiction,The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.
science_fiction,"Then, as their grokking made them ever closer and Mike felt himself almost ready to discorporate her voice called him back :   Oh ! !"
humor,and they did some somersaults.
humor,"And awfully kind of Arlene  , she told us later."
humor,"The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow."
science_fiction,"Ryan, there are other explanations for the disappearance of the bodies."
science_fiction,"There was the squat loose-jowled man, smiling lopsidedly up at him."
humor,"Mr. Jones, you may recall that we printed last week your denial of having retracted the contradiction of your original statement."
science_fiction,Work  ??
science_fiction,Hal doubted if this happy event would occur.
humor,then a couple of fluorescent lamps over the workbench an' I guess we're about through down here .
science_fiction,"Jack scanned the skies, the boards, and the skies again."
science_fiction,"Her extendibles were diverted, connected or augmented and the final, delicate-beyond-description brain taps were completed while Helva remained anesthetically unaware of the proceedings."
humor,"Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy."
humor,"One day over a year before, there had been a cocktail party in an apartment of a downtown hotel."
humor,"Now, you no doubt regard the preceding as pap;;"
science_fiction,Visiting the Earth would not be an offering of worth to those of us who are older .
science_fiction,"But my people -- Martians, I mean;;"
science_fiction,"By relaxing the throat muscles and expanding the oral cavity well into the frontal sinuses, she could direct the vowel sounds into the most felicitous position for proper reproduction through her throat microphone."
science_fiction,Jubal's conversations coming and going -- Jubal's words troubled him most;;
humor,They wanted to touch the mystery.
science_fiction,"As I grew older and was promoted, so was he, always where I was."
science_fiction,"4 ,"
humor,"I seem to remember  , he said,   that in an interview ten years ago you gave humor and comedy five years to live."
science_fiction,But did the expedition find any records of the Forerunner having been on this planet??
science_fiction,Radiation  ??
science_fiction,"Thus, the masculine animate infinitive dabhumaksanigalu'ahai, meaning to live, was, in the perfect tense, ksu'u'peli'afo, and, in the future, mai'teipa."
science_fiction,"It's inevitable in this case, for the couple will be separated for, at the least, forty years."
science_fiction,"If you need a Day off to calm down, duck over to the Muslim Paradise and take it."
science_fiction,"That cold, empty sky was full of fire and light."
humor,"In this manner, he seeks to expunge from his own soul the guilt pangs caused by his personal assaults against the English at Dunkirk."
humor,That'll get you started.
humor,"With greater precision he again paced off a location, this time a little more to the left."
science_fiction,"In southern Europe, between the Israeli Republics and the Icelandic-speaking peoples of northern Europe, was a thin but long stretch of territory called March."
science_fiction,he had been explaining all during the trip what he needed to make him feel like himself.
humor,"Herb, an expert on narrow ties, thin lapels, and swatches, was men's fashion editor of Parvenu, the weekly magazine with the tremendous circulation."
science_fiction,turn just a little.
humor,"Inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese, a dialect I take it you don't comprehend."
science_fiction,After a long time the half-man dragged himself over to the group with his powerful arms.
humor,"Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as   pratakku  ,   sweathruna  , and the tongue-twister   nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw-   all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British   imperialism ."
humor,The Zeitgeist is not crazy as a loon or mad as a March hare;;
science_fiction,I just hope it doesn't work on Earthmen too.
humor,"A weekly newspaper reported a local romance :   and the couple were married last Saturday, thus ending a friendship which began in their schooldays ."
science_fiction,his foster parents had taught him to see.
science_fiction,5
science_fiction,"Okay, take the tray."
science_fiction,"Hal, the linguist, saw the glittering discs and necklaces in terms of the languages spoken therein."
science_fiction,"As it was, while Central wrangled among itself, Robert Tanner sneaked out of the pilots' barracks, out to the field and over to Helva's slim metal hull."
science_fiction,You too were a stupid jackass until you poisoned me.
humor,The action centers about a group of outspoken and offbeat students sitting around a table in a cafeteria and their collective and ultimately fruitless search for a cup of hot coffee.
science_fiction,"I meant that you have a nice singing voice dear  , the lady amended."
humor,"Done in the modern style of a   confession  , Fink tells in exquisite detail how he came to know, and, more important, love his mother's pet salamander, Alicia."
humor,"Now he's bought it  , said my wife contentedly."
science_fiction,"The pain was gone, though it had been crippling the first time."
science_fiction,"In the other hemisphere it is growing colder and nymphs, those who stayed alive through the summer, are being brought into nests for quickening and more growing ."
humor,"Now  , said Arlene, eventually, making them both sit in formation on a big root of a live oak, the sort of root that divided itself and made their bottoms sag down and feel comfortable."
science_fiction,"Remember, man, remember."
science_fiction,the drug canceled out his needs for cycles of the body.
science_fiction,The tapes show that.
science_fiction,Jack crawled under the boards and restored the six feet of lead line he had excised from the Nernst generator switch.
humor,"It now means ominous, as when one speaks of a funny sound in the motor;;"
science_fiction,A funeral parlor chain was indicted for price-cutting.
humor,"But if true, it was the case of which he had dreamed, the case which would throw him into headlines all over America as the hero of a great murder trial."
humor,"( I sometimes feel that God, in His infinite wisdom, wants us to have these inexplicable little lapses of memory."
science_fiction,That'll be plenty to eat by .
humor,A bee's place is in the hive .
humor,Letch had made it abundantly clear that he did not care for the company of my own precious daughter.
science_fiction,Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.
science_fiction,"Swiftly, came the revulsion, the protest."
humor,"We couldn't be seen together, for the tongue of Scandal was ever ready to link our names, and the tongue of Scandal finds but one thing to say of the association of a man with a girl, no matter how innocent."
science_fiction,"However, no diagram of her brain patterns, no early I.Q. tests recorded certain essential facts about Helva that Central must eventually learn."
humor,"In a rare fit of anger and spite, I   farmed out   my own husband to a small and most undistinguished studio to make one picture as a form of punishment."
science_fiction,She would one day be grateful to the patient drone of the sub-conscious-level instruction.
science_fiction,Thou art God   ! !
humor,even brand names.
science_fiction,"A fine idea  , Mike agreed."
science_fiction,"We are directed to develop a sense of proportion, sir, which contributes the same effect ."
science_fiction,"She meant him well, but was in no condition for articulate speech."
humor,A major portion of the credit should also go to flautist Haumd for his rendering of the almost impossible   Indianapolis   movement in the Baslot.
humor,I'm not saying it right.
humor,This slip is so-called because its semi-ambiguous English always seems to refer to a person's anatomy but never quite means what it seems to say.
science_fiction,On Mars humans were building pressure domes for the male and female party that would arrive by next ship.
science_fiction,He had already become used to Hesperus' snapping back answers to questions almost before Jack could get them asked.
humor,"Any reputable French interne can supply you with a dozen similar instances, and I'll presently recount a case out of my own personal experience, but, for the moment, let's resume our catalogue."
science_fiction,No doubt the Angels could do that kind of thing as fast as any computer.
science_fiction,Mike liked having light up through the ripples;;
science_fiction,Pornsen.
humor,It would be hard to find anything more equivocal than :   I cannot recommend him too highly .
science_fiction,He wondered how anyone could have the good luck to visit a planet as nice as this.
humor,"Now, we're going to be like what General Burnside and his horse make us think of ."
science_fiction,"Now that Short is Supreme Bishop he'll do all right, he can't help it."
humor,"The double meaning in the anatomical made it a familiar vaudeville device, as in the gags of Weber and Fields."
science_fiction,What killed them  ??
humor,"One said,   When I get a cold I buy a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a few hours it's gone ."
humor,Complete power not only corrupts but it also attracts the mad.
humor,"Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest."
science_fiction,"As they merged, grokking together, Mike said softly and triumphantly :   Thou art God ."
humor,"The rhinos would panic, screaming help ! !"
humor,"A man of vaulting ambition, with one eye on the mayorship of Los Angeles, nothing ever escaped him which might possibly lead to personal publicity."
humor,"The   wooden-leg   gag of vaudeville, another standby of this sort, had endless variations."
science_fiction,He saw the child-face grimace as the head was cut;;
humor,"An unusual, if not extraordinary, rendering of the classic myth that involves the rescue of Prometheus from the rock by the U.S. Cavalry was given last week in the warehouse of the Albany Leather Conduit Company amid cheers of   Hubba hubba   and   Yalagaloo pip pip   ! !"
science_fiction,I know.
humor,"It doesn't drown out the dialogue  , I explained."
humor,Who's in it  ??
science_fiction,"I'm helping you now, am I not??"
humor,"He took his glass, clinked it against mine, and said,   Toujours gai, what the hell   ! !"
science_fiction,Her brain and intelligence controlled every function from navigation to such loading as a scout ship of her class needed.
humor,At the home of a gourmet the new maid was instructed in the fine points of serving.
humor,There's a man outside with a wooden leg named Smith .
humor,"a friend of mine removing her from the curio cabinet for inspection was felled as if by a hammer, but he had previously drunk a quantity of applejack."
science_fiction,"He had to have fusion power to catch up with the skiff, and he had to have it fast."
humor,Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star :   The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic .
humor,"This was delivered in a forthright way, without coyness and over-pretended interest -- an admirable way with children."
humor,"I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor."
science_fiction,"Will you obstruct this, or will you help??"
humor,She laughed a little and tossed the dregs rakishly around in her glass.
science_fiction,"Yes  , said Mercer, a little ashamed of his obviousness."
science_fiction,He had been weary;;
humor,She could see that Mr. Gorboduc was intrigued;;
science_fiction,"Actually, the types of infection that could attack a warm-blooded mammal were not infinite, and over the course of the last few hundred years adequate defenses had been found for all basic categories."
science_fiction,"Of course, that's not definite proof ."
science_fiction,Consider the tense system.
science_fiction,What persuaded the cow-man to remain on Shayol??
science_fiction,"Furthermore, even the highly trained law clerk who was a part of Jack's total make-up could not understand how the principle could ever be codified."
science_fiction,I grok I shall never be lonely again .
science_fiction,But I can't take you to Earth yet.
science_fiction,)
humor,"I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me."
humor,It was five minutes after four.
humor,"Oh, that's wonderful  , cried Mrs. Crombie."
humor,"As Broadway itself becomes increasingly weighted down by trite, heavy-handed, commercially successful musicals and inspirational problem dramas, the American theatre is going through an inexorable renaissance in that nebulous area known as   off-Broadway ."
humor,"Did men become perfectionists as they grew older, polishing, polishing, reluctant to let go??"
science_fiction,"What Gabriel was asking was that mankind forego all its parochial moral judgments, and contract to let the Angels serve on Earth as it is in Heaven regardless of the applicable Earth laws."
humor,The speaker referred to the whiskey but his friend thought he meant the cold.
science_fiction,Afterwards you did well enough.
science_fiction,He rubbed his eyes sleepily with one huge paw.
science_fiction,"I mean we know the order in which things happen, but we have no clocks and nobody cares enough to count days or to make calendars and there's not much climate here, so none of us know how long anything takes."
humor,"Oh yes, the other day I reread some of Emerson's English Traits, and there was an anecdote about a group of English and Americans visiting Germany, more than a hundred years ago."
humor,"Oddly enough, this is an amulet against housebreakers, presented to the mem and me by a local rajah in 1949."
humor,He'd show them ! !
humor,"When a question contains two verbs, the response does not make clear which of them is being answered."
science_fiction,"It was night on this hemisphere, but the light blazed from the megalopolises of Australia, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, Siberia."
humor,In his famous meeting with Nixon a couple of years ago he seemed to believe that he was as funny as Ed Wynn.
humor,"Presidential coercion had succeeded not only in poisoning the courtiers,   toadies   and sycophants of the   bench   against me, but it had been so far-reaching as to discourage any lawyer in the nation from representing me ! !"
science_fiction,Jubal deduced what had happened but did not know with whom -- and didn't want to inquire.
humor,"Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all."
humor,"Most of our working days were spent on the telephone calling   bookies  , illegal gambling dens, a certain   residential club for young actresses  , more than a hundred different bars or the steam room of the athletic club."
humor,"As for his finances, I was never privileged to know exactly how much money Letch had   salted away ."
science_fiction,"Come on, there's some cold chicken and we'll see what else ."
science_fiction,But the secret itself was just as hard.
science_fiction,"Or was that after the torso and legs, waist to toe-tips, of the little girl which had grown from his side??"
science_fiction,"( Or, perhaps, especially in an Angel, whose assumptions had mostly been fixed millions of years ago."
humor,"The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion."
humor,"In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman :   Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ."
humor,"Old Order, acted and atonally sung by Grunnfeu Arapacis, the lovely Serbantian import, then entered and delivered the well-known invocation to the god Phineoppus, whereupon the stage is quite unexpectedly visited by a company of wandering Gorshek priests, symbolizing Love, Lust, Prudence and General Motors, respectively."
humor,bright pinks and plaids and vivid stripes.
science_fiction,And the major part of my mission to your nest is to make a treaty between your race and mine.
humor,"I am told that in America you have non-books by non-writers, brought out by non-publishers for non-readers."
humor,Arlene became indispensable;;
science_fiction,"Oh, I forget  , and Helva's voice was really contrite."
science_fiction,Asked Mercer.
science_fiction,"The agonies of nerves and itching of skin were phenomena which happened somewhere near him, but meant nothing."
humor,"At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search."
science_fiction,"Oh, dear ! !"
humor,"One species is restricted to statements which are neither explicit nor precise regarding a particular person, place, time or thing."
science_fiction,"but the nicest thing about their relationship was her whisper to him, repeated some thousands of time, repeated with smiles and hope,   People never live forever ."
humor,"Tell Mr. Gorboduc what you're doing these days  , my mother advised the children, ceremonially."
humor,"In the railway station at Berlin, a uniformed attendant was chanting, ' Foreigners this way ! !"
science_fiction,"Jubal said that his night-sight probably came from the conditions in which he had grown up, and Mike grokked this was true but grokked that there was more to it;;"
science_fiction,"You may reclaim your property, and the penalty on Hesperus is lifted."
science_fiction,B'dikkat had turned to the next knot of people when the super-condamine hit Mercer.
humor,The comic indefinite comprises an extensive class of comedy.
humor,At least he could buy the equipment for his workshop.
humor,"The policeman got a confused, funny look on his face, and he had answered kind of politely,   Now, look here, lady : I know you got to entertain these kids and all."
humor,"Well, the odious little toad went along chivying animals and humans who couldn't retaliate, and in due course, as was inevitable, overreached himself."
humor,"Cause of all this commotion : squat, pug-nosed, balding, hopelessly ugly Jean-Pierre Bravado, a Bogartian figure, who plays a sadistic, amoral, philosophic Tasti-Freeze salesman in old New-Waver Fredrico de Mille Rossilini's endlessly provocative film, A Sour Sponge."
science_fiction,Mercer turned away.
science_fiction,"She would weep in private, he was sure, for she loved him in her frigid way, though in public she would be dry-eyed."
humor,"Whenever he deigned to appear at the studio he was   hung over  , uncooperative, rude and insulting."
humor,"She really is a dear little thing  , my mother agreed."
science_fiction,Hesperus ! !
science_fiction,If mankind could be convinced of that
humor,"Yes, ma'am  , the children chorused heartily."
humor,"Anyone knows how a real, red-blooded woman would react to such a catastrophe ! !"
humor,"The detectives placed Barco under arrest and, without informing him of the nature of the charge, took him back to Hollywood for questioning."
science_fiction,He forced himself to be deliberate.
science_fiction,"Hal gasped, and he said,   A divorce  ??"
science_fiction,With this he felt his lips thicken and his mind go slack.
humor,"Oh, I'm so delighted to meet you  , she gushed."
humor,Is it all non-fiction  ??
science_fiction,"Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it."
science_fiction,I believe it was on page 573   ! !
humor,Another stock vaudeville gag ran :   Mother is home sick in bed with the doctor .
humor,What's the matter with the music  ??
science_fiction,He knew all the events which could take place on Shayol.
science_fiction,"Balanced properly between optimism and practicality, the nondefeatist attitude of the shell people led them to extricate themselves, their ships and personnel, from bizarre situations."
humor,This habit had become so fixed over the years that it seemed futile to do anything for which no one was waiting.
science_fiction,Nothing.
science_fiction,I now grok you are my people -- teach plants another way.
science_fiction,Unfortunately
science_fiction,This old world lost all of its helium and trace gases long ago.
science_fiction,"No  , said Macneff."
humor,"How about them, I thought."
humor,He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.
humor,A conscientious girl became the secretary of a doctor.
science_fiction,"I had no idea that you, too, would be on this glorious voyage."
humor,"There are many types of ambiguity and many of them have been described by rhetoricians under such names as amphibology, parisology, and other ologies."
humor,"I know what you mean  , Moreland sighed."
science_fiction,"All I know is that you were outside the bubbles last night, and you were the only sentient being who came in or out of our alarm web."
humor,"This time  , Arlene said, and she even kept on wiggling a little bit while she was just talking,   you're going to tell me what I am and what I'm doing."
science_fiction,Here the peoples spoke the tongue of Iceland because that island had gotten the jump on the Hawaiian-Americans who were busy resettling North America and the western half of South America after the Apocalyptic War.
science_fiction,Where??
humor,That helped a great deal.
humor,"They hail from Travancore, a state in the subcontinent where Kali, the goddess of death, is worshiped."
science_fiction,Okay .
humor,I opened the window and threw the radish out .
humor,"An item in the letters column of a newspaper renewed a subscription, adding :   I personally enjoy your newspaper as much as my husband ."
science_fiction,"Good luck, fellow ."
humor,Do you remember the woman in the French Alps who was all alone with her sheep one day when the sun darkened ominously??
science_fiction,You've got the lovelies on the brain.
humor,"In common parlance they would be described as misses -- misinterpreters, misunderstanders, misdirectors and kindred misdeeds."
humor,He would not look up.
humor,"Becoming aware that it was nearly lunchtime, I brought myself back to the tasks at hand."
science_fiction,"it was a goodness, beauty."
science_fiction,"When it is done between races or nations, it is called making a treaty."
humor,Ambiguity arises when the pronoun it carries a twofold reference.
science_fiction,The good man chortled appreciatively and decided the trip was worth his time.
humor,His energy was prodigious;;
humor,( But that is another story.
humor,"The breeze and chancellor Neitzbohr, a movie melodrama that concerns the attempts of a West German politician to woo a plaster cast of the Apollo Belvedere."
humor,"Strangely enough, this always brought the house down."
humor,") The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved."
humor,"But with Welch's relentless pursuit of the subject, Barco finally   broke   and started confessing to one murder after another."
humor,No divinity will hold still for that.
humor,"Viola had been urged to attend, by telephone, and not knowing the host or the character of the party, she had gone."
humor,"As usual, Mrs. Crombie was standing in the midst of a confusion of cooking utensils."
humor,It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.
science_fiction,"So, forgive me, Sigmen, for the contrary-to-reality thoughts ! !"
science_fiction,"What Gabriel was being asked to do now, however, was to re-examine all his basic assumptions, make value-judgments on them, and give them new and different powers in his mind to govern his motives."
science_fiction,"Brain ships were, of course, long past the experimental stages."
science_fiction,of a more alive time.
humor,"From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying."
humor,"But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who   sees the light   and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini."
humor,One species of ambiguity tries to baffle by interweaving repetition.
humor,He directed the cortege of autos to the sand dunes near Santa Monica.
humor,"It's perfectly understandable, Arlene  , my mother said in a friendly way."
science_fiction,Mercer squeezed the man's shoulder.
humor,"But they kept on clapping for a long, long time."
science_fiction,I have helped him.
humor,"So she brought the fish in whole, and she carried a lemon in her mouth."
science_fiction,It is for growing closer.
humor,"It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time."
science_fiction,"A range of bluffs hugged the horizon, the color of decaying moss."
science_fiction,Shell people were encouraged to develop a hobby so long as they maintained proficiency in their technical work.
humor,"Then, at last, his day would fall into an ordered pattern and he would be free to read, or garden or just wander through the woods in the late afternoon, accompanied by his dogs."
science_fiction,those who could talk declared it to be the breathing of Captain Alvarez.
science_fiction,"I know it's not part of the bargain, and your elders might not like it ."
humor,I studied Welch closely as the trial progressed for any hint which might give me a lead as to how he might be thwarted.
humor,Could it do otherwise??
science_fiction,"Its citizens spoke all of the world's surviving tongues, plus a new one called Lingo, a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet of paper."
science_fiction,"Behind him, his mates stirred without waking."
humor,"The first one said,   He sure does shake."
science_fiction,"As for my elders, they have already admitted that they were wrong."
science_fiction,"Even rock-steady Anne -- Hell, Anne was the worst ! !"
science_fiction,"Jubal did not hear of Digby's disappearance when it was announced, and, when he did, while he had a fleeting suspicion, he dismissed it;;"
humor,Quasimodo defines his own art as   the search for what is not there .
science_fiction,It might have been several months.
science_fiction,"She smiled at him with benign, remote happiness;;"
humor,"Then they had always been romping around him on these walks, yelping with delight, dashing off into the bushes on fruitless hunting expeditions, returning to jump up on him triumphantly with muddy paws."
science_fiction,time was not yet.
science_fiction,"So, for happy years, Helva scooted around in her shell with her classmates, playing such games as Stall, Power-Seek, studying her lessons in trajectory, propulsion techniques, computation, logistics, mental hygiene, basic alien psychology, philology, space history, law, traffic, codes : all the et ceteras that eventually became compounded into a reasoning, logical, informed citizen."
science_fiction,What kept him happy without super-condamine??
humor,I did not rest until I had tracked the mystery down.
humor,"They headed in that direction and, at San Juan Capistrano By-the-Sea came upon Barco sitting in the quaint old Spanish Mission Drive-in, eating a hot tamale."
science_fiction,The dead beasties.
humor,O ! !
humor,We couldn't help laughing.
humor,"Moreland sat brooding for a full minute, during which I made each of us a new drink."
humor,"Another woman, addressing Christmas cards, said to her husband :   We sent them one last year but they didn't send us one, so they probably won't send us one this year because they'll think we won't send them one because they didn't last year, don't you think, or shall we  ??"
science_fiction,"It's a kind of agreement in which each party gives something to the other  , Jack said."
science_fiction,I'm inclined to think that they are about two Earth-weeks each .
science_fiction,The drug went after the pain and swallowed it.
humor,"He asked, between wheezes of laughter."
humor,"Some sort of nemesis was haunting his footsteps, he told us in a quavering voice -- either an ape specter or Abe Spector, a process-server, we couldn't determine which."
humor,"It worried him, this inability to get the simplest things done in the course of a day."
science_fiction,There was no such thing as an   accident .
science_fiction,Ekstrohm had to hide his secret.
science_fiction,But it was inevitable ! !
science_fiction,"He stumbled and fell, but it did not hurt."
science_fiction,"The glorious news had been held up pending Heavenly confirmation of the elevation of a new Supreme Bishop, Huey Short -- a candidate accepted by the Boone faction after lots had been cast repeatedly."
humor,Mr. Gorboduc looked down.
science_fiction,"Absent-minded, subject to unexplained tears Jubal would have bet his life that if Anne were to witness the Second Coming, she would memorize date, time, personae, events, and barometric pressure without batting her calm blue eyes."
science_fiction,He is now my block gapt.
science_fiction,Larry teaches plants to grow.
humor,"Even though I have always had a genius for   throwing myself   into every role and   playing it for all it's worth  , no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled."
humor,"Thanks to Letch Feeley and the terrible strain he imposed on me, the notices were few and unfavorable."
science_fiction,"Insects there were on the world, but they were frozen solid during the night, only to revive and thaw in the morning sun."
science_fiction,"Shell people did not, strictly speaking, breathe."
humor,But the warm joy of her brown eyes was open to the general public.
science_fiction,I'll help .
humor,He sat down on an old box and focused on the problem.
humor,"Petite, lovely Yvette Chadroe plays the nymphomaniac engagingly."
science_fiction,It would be at once the most tentative and most final treaty that Earth had ever signed.
science_fiction,"Yet he knew the others were sleeping more soundly, now that they had renewed their contact with the matter that had birthed them to send them riding high vacuum."
humor,My plea was unanimously voted down and   thrown out .
science_fiction,Very few committees ever looked past the first few photos.
humor,"I was wrong  , I admitted."
science_fiction,"Hello, anyone at home  ??"
science_fiction,"They run their show their way -- the Universe has variety, something for everybody -- a fact you field workers often miss ."
science_fiction,Or maybe it's sheer xenophobia.
humor,"After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said :   I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly."
humor,"A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre."
humor,"In that case, listen to what befell another wisenheimer who tangled with our joss."
humor,"As you have doubtless guessed already, the plot is plastered with Freudian, Jungian, and Meinckian theory."
science_fiction,The half-man laughed with something close to real humor.
humor,"Compassionately yours ,"
humor,"Ever since Bambi, and, more recently, Born Free, there have been a lot of books about animals, but few compare with Max Fink's wry, understated, charming, and immensely readable My Friend, the Quizzical Salamander."
humor,Good   ! !
science_fiction,"Strange  , Gabriel said."
humor,"A dreadful fear entered my consciousness that perhaps he had entertained aspirations toward Viola's favors -- or, even more serious perhaps, that he had attained a share of them and had then been superseded by some luckier chap."
science_fiction,I do so believe in death   ! !
humor,"Arlene's a good girl  , my uncle remarked to us;;"
science_fiction,And it leaves very soon .
science_fiction,It was not a new experience to Ekstrohm.
humor,pioneers who looked like off-duty gardeners even at parent-teacher conferences and who never called the school principal   Mister .
science_fiction,Another obstacle was the grammatical construction of Siddo.
humor,"You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom."
humor,"Dearly beloved  , he preached,   unless you repent of your sins in a measure, and become converted to a degree, you will, I regret to say, be damned to a more or less extent ."
science_fiction,"Although this was the first time that Helva had seen unshelled people, she took this experience calmly."
science_fiction,"He watched his own body with remote, casual interest."
science_fiction,The Old Ones neither helped nor hindered this plan;;
science_fiction,"Again, a force too strong for unfrozen bodies to endure would be applied."
humor,"There is non-fiction and non non-fiction  , I said."
humor,"Apart from misplaced modifiers and headlinese, journalism contributes a wide variety of comic ambiguities in both editorial and advertising matter."
science_fiction,Self's integrity was and is and ever had been.
humor,Perhaps one bored holes in the stone with some kind of an electric gadget.
humor,This is a warm-up .
science_fiction,There's still such a thing as mental illness.
science_fiction,"All the other parts of speech : nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions operated under the same system as the verbs."
science_fiction,"Ekstrohm, Nogol, you guys okay  ??"
humor,"This time, it was so grand;;"
science_fiction,Soon they all were removed to Central Laboratory School where their delicate transformation began.
humor,"Then, they said General Burnside was going to jump over his horse's head;;"
humor,Hold on tight.
humor,He went upstairs to phone Crumb.
humor,Nothing was found.
science_fiction,"It was like the cap in the hospital, only a thousand times better."
humor,"He made many tasteless, irreverent and unfunny remarks, not only about me in the title role, but about religion in general."
humor,"After five minutes with Blanche, one might welcome the astringency of Grazie, who was a sort of Gwen Cafritz to Francesca's Perle Mesta."
humor,"The old nightmare which had caused him so many wakeful hours came charging in on him once more, only this time he couldn't pacify it with a sleeping pill and send it away."
humor,"It is, I am reliably given to understand, the technical argot for those who engage in your particular branch of the boost;;"
humor,Or his horse.
humor,Ambiguity
humor,"The children loathed him, too."
humor,It was during her   writing   period that she and Herb met and decided that they were in love.
humor,"Such as ' sending the cat to guard the mice ', or ' the falcon to protect the dove ', or most terribly sharp of all, ' the human being to save humanity ' ."
humor,The jail authorities -- attaching no particular significance to the episode -- offered Barco whisky to revive him;;
humor,"Those persons who were lucky enough to see and hear the performance of his work at the Brest-Silevniov Festival in August, 1916, will certainly welcome his return to public notice;;"
humor,"I learned, for example, that he made a practice of yapping at dogs he encountered and, in winter, of sprinkling salt on the icy pavement to scarify their feet."
science_fiction,Siberia spoke Icelandic.
science_fiction,"Ryan nudged it with his toe, following Ekstrohm's example."
science_fiction,But he was too late.
science_fiction,Hal Yarrow   ! !
science_fiction,"The skiff was not heading for the nursery, however."
science_fiction,But I have just thought of one thing.
humor,What a nasty fall was there   ! !
science_fiction,Mike felt disappointed that Mahmoud had left;;
humor,"As a matter of fact, this happened every four or five months."
humor,"In the first place, it was difficult for us to meet."
humor,"First, Arlene had put them through some rapid somersaults."
science_fiction,We shall recommend to them that they shorten your trial period by half.
humor,"Not long ago, I rode down with him in an elevator in Radio City;;"
science_fiction,What had changed for him??
science_fiction,"The dromozoa kept him alive, but he did not know how they did it."
science_fiction,Perhaps.
humor,"If Blanche had been honest, she would have yelled, slammed at least a couple of doors, and thrown a few little, valueless things."
science_fiction,"Sure, I'm hungry   ! !"
humor,Not long ago a newspaper advised those taking part in a contest that   snapshots must be of a person not larger than Af inches .
humor,The operator asked pityingly.
science_fiction,"he was considerate of their weakness, once he learned of it."
science_fiction,"Over the years, he had had buddies in space in whom he thought he could confide."
science_fiction,"Though it might be that we would have much to give you, you have nothing to give us ."
humor,"They looked so formidable, however, so demanding, that I found myself staring at them in dismay and starting to woolgather again, this time about Francesca and her husband."
science_fiction,"It seemed to be only a riot of color, light and meaningless activity."
humor,"Non-God, no  , I said."
humor,"Their two boys were   well adjusted   and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences."
humor,"As a result, life had become a kind of continuous make-ready."
science_fiction,"She approached the problem by investigating the methods of sound reproduction through the centuries, human and instrumental."
humor,My uncle looked at Mr. Gorboduc.
humor,"Grazie was mean : quietly mean, and bitterly, unfunnily sarcastic."
humor,"Sometimes she even wore the uniform in solid, unrelieved black, and with her blonde hair cut so closely, wearing this uniform, she strongly resembled a member of the SS.."
humor,Moreland asked.
humor,It gave him a chance to unload the stuff and get it down to the cellar without a barrage of acid comments.
humor,"The digger, thrusting about with his shovel, now raised into view a package crudely wrapped in one of the murderer's Hollywood sport shirts."
humor,"Then, Arlene threw herself backwards and wiggled in a way that was just wonderful."
humor,"A news item described the launching of a ship :   Completing the ceremony, the beautiful movie star smashed a bottle of champagne over her stern as she slid gracefully down the ways into the sea ."
science_fiction,"Time stood still for these people, and their load of pleasure was so commingled with the shocks and pains of the dromozoa that the words of the Lady Da took on very remote meaning."
science_fiction,What shall we do with this one??
science_fiction,"But, from our reading of the Western Talmud, we Urielites believe that the Forerunner, knowing this situation would arise, made reference to and provision for divorce."
science_fiction,The Lady Da forced the foremost of her bodies in an upright position.