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.