Secret meanings

• About this book
• Cherry – Medicine can taste more like cherries than cherries.
• Lacuna – Accidents of time create meaning.
• Fibonacci – This number sequence describes the form of many things.
• Magic number – A truly magic number would have magic.
• Life and death – We can’t make life from scratch.
• Measuring a quality – You can say how it feels.
• Dream – I had a dream last night.
• Sign – I wasn’t waiting for a sign.
• In conversation – I never tell you everything I think.
• Magic – Art relies on magic.
• Moon landing – The moon seemed closer than the mountains.
• Distant friend – My friend died unexpectedly.
• Partner choices – How do people choose their partners?
• Pumpkin – We name things by association.
• Gender – Gender and appearance don’t correlate well.
• Psychic – It’s a role, not a gift.
• Robot singer – A robot imitates a singer.
• Married – People could tell they were married.
• Lying – Does believing protect one from lying?
• Detective mysteries – Crimes can’t easily be concealed.
• Critical appraisals – Mother shared her criticisms.
• Discarded evidence – Nobody needs to know whatever we toss out.
• Identity in action – Being good isn’t a quality.
• Retired – I don’t envy my cats.
• Loved one – One, yet two.
• Feline behavior – We can’t tell whether its behavior is instinctual.
• Time – Time is locked away.
• She knows – He praises her only because he loves her.