These asperities are distributed in a fractal manner and each fault contains small and large asperities.

In recent decades, gig has become just a hip term for any temporary job or stint, with the implication you're not particularly invested in it. I think of the barista or bookstore clerk who responds to my questions with a look that says, Hey, man, it's a gig. I don't really DO this? That tone of insouciance has made the gig economy the predominant name for what's being touted as the industrial revolution of our times.

Schellenberg's thinking on religion begins with what he calls “ultimism.” “Ultimism,” for him, is the claim that: There is a metaphysically and axiologically ultimate reality (one representing both the deepest fact about the nature of things and the greatest possible value), in relation to which an ultimate good can be attained.

The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.