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An excellent but underrated Heinlein book is Citizen of the Galaxy, literally a rags to riches story. Here’s a favorite quote I live by: 📚💬 #mbmay

A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.

Douglas Adams is best known for The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but his Dirk Gently series is also pretty good. A quote from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: 📚💬 #mbmay

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Another favorite book is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The whole series, really. Here’s a quote: 📚💬 #mbmay

… such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it!

Here’s an amusing meta-quote from Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love, which was one of my all-time favorite books as a kid: 📚💬 #mbmay

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of — but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Today’s color micro challenge is violet. This is a knitting project Jenn is currently working on, a shawl she’s doing as part of a mystery knit-along. 📷🌈 #mbmay

Yarn and knitting

Today’s Micro.blog color challenge is indigo. That’s a tricky one… the best I can come up with is these irises, though they might be straddling the line between indigo and violet? 📷🌈 #mbmay

Irises