Linguistics Is Very Much A Science. It's

How We Treat Our Invalids - Our Mad, Our Physically Or Mentally Compromised Family Members - Does Tell You Something About Who We Are Politically, Historically, Culturally.

Everyone In A Position Of Authority Is Hysterical, And Everyone Else Is Pretending To Be Asleep.

Suggestion Is A Literary Strategy.

Historically, I Guess That's How Science Fiction Works: You Start By Using Aliens To Think The Unthinkable — And Then, Eventually, Another Writer, Having Grown A Little More Comfortable With The Earlier Notion, Brings It Into The Human.

A Sentence Has Meaning In The Sense That A Train Has A Track, Not That A Train Has A Passenger.