Lewis tried to explain the thing about fermions, but she was captivated by pheromones. The Pauli exclusion principle states that these particles can never have the same set of quantum numbers, he said. She only caught the part about the spin quantum number and spins pairing up, all while she drew her nail up his hand as it fluttered with explanations. After a few other tactile attempts, she walked away, and he was left in an unpaired state, which describes non-bonding electrons, which are part of valence electrons.
Carmen Tot
Seven Tuesdays we kneel'd on a new cloth, drank'd the first woter gotten from the well and wurshipped lucifer at nite, all of we girls, fer our future \'usbands to show up in our dreams. And did you see him in a dreame, auntie Mărioară? Dreamed me ass. I dreamed with Prince Charming. Hardly had I j'st left one eve to bring me father home from the pub, when this lad on'a white horse popped up, from a neighborin' village, so handsome it boggled your mind. He wasn't dreamed up, not that \'un, but I lied through me teeth: sir, I dreamed you'd be me husband. And what did he say? \'E laughed and took me to be \'is wife.
Gabriel Rusu
After each game we lost, our coach gave us the same baffling speech. You, kids, football is like life. If you want to succeed, be a team player for Pete's sake. You can be van Basten all you want and do nothing if you don't have a Gullit by you, to whom you're passing the ball in perfect sync, one-two, easily dribbling past unexpectedly arisen obstacles. Forget about your ego when they applaud you on the open stage and give thanks to the person next to you, because you shine thanks to her. Only when I met Jules did I get the meaning of his words.
(Translated by Ioana Ștefan / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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