Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.

