Books Similar To The Last Lecture の小説・ストーリー

The thought is both humbling and strengthening. Over the following weeks, Moonhaven settles back into its rhythms while we integrate lessons learned in Quebec. The bookstore reopens with an expanded section on interdimensional studies—carefully disguised as anthropological texts and theoretical physics for casual browsers, but containing genuine wisdom for those who know how to read between the lines.

I tried hard to act like my nervous system hadn’t just short-circuited over a guy sitting quietly in the back row as I pulled out my notebook and uncapped my pen. The lecture hall buzzed around me, and someone argued two rows down about whether mythology counted as historical evidence. A girl behind me whispered frantically about forgetting to buy the textbook. Laptops clicked open, and coffee cups hit desks, and somehow my body remained stupidly aware of him. The door at the front of the room shut with a soft click before Professor Smith crossed toward the podium carrying a battered leather satchel that looked older than half the campus.

“Library after lunch?” She nodded, a little too quickly. “Deal.” The lecturer’s voice droned from the front, but Alicia barely heard a word. She and Kevin leaned closer, trading whispers, their voices so low they were nearly indistinguishable from the rustle of pages and the scrape of pens on paper. To anyone else, it might look like concentration. The forty-five minutes blurred. When the lecture ended, students rushed for the exit, but Kevin and Alicia left together, an unspoken rhythm syncing their steps.

I can’t explain it, but I don’t have to, either, if I don’t bring it up, and I’m not one to ever start conversations. I sniff the paperback—old, musty paper, glue, and Justus—and set it on the pallet. The next book in the pile, Peter Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread, has a picture of two men chopping down a tree on the cover. It smells the same. All the books are dog-eared paperbacks with yellowed pages—Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant, several each by Ursula K. Le Guin and N. K. Jemison, and a massive hardback of Plato’s collected works. The Plato is the only one that looks like it hasn’t been read a hundre

riley said, a little disappointed. " yeah, ermm, i came to town for a business deal and i have a flight out this morning, a flight that i'll miss if i don't leave right now" Jesse said with a bit of embarrasment and disappointment in his voice " okay, that's alright" Riley said with a smile " yeah, and uhmm, it was really nice seeing you, it's been...forever" Jesse said " Yeah, it was nice seeing you too" Riley responded " and about last night, i didn't mean to , you know, you were in such a bad shape and you just kept talking about things and...i'm sorry if it looked like i took adavantage" Jesse said in a calmer tone

After that I walked into the lecture hall about ten minutes late for classes. Instead of the calm I expected to see, the entire hall was louder than normal. The professor hadn't arrived yet. The girls were clustered in groups and whispering fast with soft giggles. Guys leaned over desks with their phones out, showing each other something. “Did you see him yet?” one girl asked her friend. “They say he’s from the UK." Her friend squealed a reply. "He's so hot. And I heard he wrote like three books on advanced dynamics.”

Krane’s domain. Kai clapped him on the back once—lighter this time. “See you after. Don’t let the pureblood talk scare you. They’re just showing off.” Nico stepped inside alone. The lecture hall smelled faintly of copper and chalk. Tiered seats again, but smaller, more intimate. A long dissection table stood at the front under bright white lights—currently empty, thank god. Charts lined the walls: circulatory systems glowing red, skeletal structures overlaid with bite patterns, reproductive diagrams that made a few humans in the front row shift uncomfortably.

Held it in her hands. Her phone buzzed. Clara: Are you going to read it again? She typed: I don't think so. Then what are you going to do? She looked around the room. The white walls. The bare floor. The photo on the wall. The new jar of pickles on her desk. I don't know. That's what you always say. Because it's always true. Come to the lecture tonight. There's one on bridges. Again? Different bridges. Older ones.

Nelson walks in with her briefcase and begins class. She dives right into a lecture on the relationship literature has with other arts. After going on for at least fifty minutes, Professor Nelson, lifts a page off her desk, poises her reading glasses at the tip of her nose and begins to read. The words flow off the page brilliantly, with confidence, lacking the arrogance you’d expect from someone who obviously knows their shit, but isn’t trying to be an ass about it. Each inference is correct, precise, holding the attention of everyone in the room. Something about the words are familiar. Soothing even, like I know them from somewhere, though I've never read this paper before. The professor p