the northbound lanes of Interstate 95

That last conception of realism is certainly not the same as the notion of lifelikeness. Some of Magritte's paintings are very lifelike, for example, even though they do not show the sorts of scenes which one would ever actually encounter.

This may seem a strange and unprofessional way of beginning the story of the ascent of a 26,000-foot mountain, but it was not just the wish to conquer a high peak that turned our thoughts to Cho Oyu; it was the longing for the boundless peace of evening such as these. Next year, Cho Oyu? Pasang asked. Cho Oyu, I agreed. Adjiba brought the fried liver of the goat. We go for Cho Oyu, Pasang told him. Aha, Adjiba said, cutting a cucumber into thin slices. That's how we decided to attack the seventh highest mountain in the world.

My old Mum also taught me to be polite in the face of ignorance, Than your mother is really double-moralic and 2faced and an idiot, sorry, but teaching children to lie or to be polite when they see ignorance is not what I want to teach my children. You are the best example of a motherson-. Always acting friendly, but having a knife backhands !