{
  "_README": "The drifting hero field reads this file. A quote appears ONLY if its 'text' is a non-empty string. NOTHING HERE IS INVENTED: every line is quoted verbatim from a document in the Books folder or from the website brief, and 'source' names the file. Compiled 2026-08-29 CT by mining every work in the Books folder for self-contained sentences and choosing two per work. Edit freely -- add, cut, reword your own lines; the field picks up whatever is here.",
  "_coverage": {
    "included": "Every work with original prose in the Books folder, published or not.",
    "excluded": [
      "How the Flood Happened -- not a book (owner, 2026-08-29); the file is an AI conversation transcript.",
      "Bridging Sacred Traditions / BBD II -- incomplete (owner, 2026-08-29).",
      "White Plague + 1984 = 2048 -- 2048.docx duplicates the iFrankenstein text; its only distinct quotable line is a Yogi Berra quotation, which is not Tom's to use as his own.",
      "Tom's Best Recipes -- no prose worth drifting."
    ]
  },
  "quotes": [
    { "text": "The model is the authority and the narrative is backfitted.",
      "book": "Solar System Classroom", "source": "SolarSystemClassroom README" },
    { "text": "We do not fly the mission the book describes. We find the mission that can actually be flown, and then the book changes.",
      "book": "Solar System Classroom", "source": "SolarSystemClassroom README" },
    { "text": "Curiosity and imagination, rigorously applied.",
      "book": "Author umbrella", "source": "merkabah-logo-thomasflake.svg" },
    { "text": "Fly a mission from anywhere to anywhere in the Solar System.",
      "book": "Fly a Mission", "source": "00 WEBSITE BRIEF.md" },
    { "text": "You build the rocket, you design the mission. You are the mission engineer.",
      "book": "Fly a Mission", "source": "00 WEBSITE BRIEF.md" },

    { "text": "I ran it against both of my numbers and got two different answers, which is the part nobody puts in the retellings.",
      "book": "Platinum Void", "source": "13 - Final/01 Chapter 1 - Tanker 103.docx" },
    { "text": "I have to try to give you the shadow, because it is the part that people who have not been there cannot construct.",
      "book": "Platinum Void", "source": "13 - Final/01 Chapter 1 - Tanker 103.docx" },

    { "text": "I should be precise, because you deserve precision and because precision is the only honor I can still do the work.",
      "book": "Wheels Within Wheels", "source": "Chapter 7 - The Whirlwind.md" },
    { "text": "The dose I had respected for two years, the dose I did not dare exceed, was now the ambient condition of my waking.",
      "book": "Wheels Within Wheels", "source": "Chapter 8 - Twice the Spirit.md" },

    { "text": "The believing scientist investigates the order God imposed on element, and the investigation is a form of reverence.",
      "book": "The Reopened Court", "source": "The Reopened Court - Manuscript.docx" },
    { "text": "The other reading dissolves the gods into metaphor, but a metaphor cannot be arraigned, convicted, and sentenced.",
      "book": "The Reopened Court", "source": "The Reopened Court - Manuscript.docx" },

    { "text": "The argument is offered to the reader for whom the parallel holds, not pressed on the reader for whom it does not.",
      "book": "The Comprehensive Bible of Book of Mormon Evidence", "source": "Appendix C.docx" },
    { "text": "On the most natural reading of the test, the process does not produce accurate translation of the source documents.",
      "book": "The Comprehensive Bible of Book of Mormon Evidence", "source": "Book of Mormon Evidence 2026 manuscript" },

    { "text": "In other words, the doctrine of the Trinity, as we know it today, is not derived solely from the biblical text.",
      "book": "Bridging Biblical Divides", "source": "2nd Edition/Chapter 5.1.docx" },
    { "text": "The implication is a Christianity increasingly inaccessible, necessitating a return to Paul's unadorned gospel.",
      "book": "Bridging Biblical Divides", "source": "2nd Edition/Chapter 3.docx" },

    { "text": "The dissertation does not present a new cryptanalytic break of RSA, nor does it propose replacing standards-based key-size guidance with a custom threshold.",
      "book": "Factor-Interval Structure in Fixed-Length Semiprimes", "source": "00_TITLE_AND_ABSTRACT.md" },
    { "text": "Storage and reuse can change the practical meaning of precomputation without changing the underlying mathematics.",
      "book": "Factor-Interval Structure in Fixed-Length Semiprimes", "source": "00_TITLE_AND_ABSTRACT.md" },

    { "text": "In the ancient society of Antaria, where the land was once warm and vibrant, there lived a pair of twins named Evening and Adamant.",
      "book": "The Quest for Edenaria", "source": "Quest for Edenaria.docx" },
    { "text": "You, my dear ones, are destined to guide our people to a new land, a promised land called Edenaria.",
      "book": "The Quest for Edenaria", "source": "Quest for Edenaria.docx" },

    { "text": "This is the story of the sailor Tom and the Princess Michelle and what they did during their life together and what was most important in the end.",
      "book": "The Sailor and the Princess", "source": "The Sailor and The Princess.docx" },
    { "text": "I am not making this up, but you can already tell that Sailor Tom was not royalty.",
      "book": "The Sailor and the Princess", "source": "The Sailor and The Princess.docx" },

    { "text": "All they knew for sure was the stories they told themselves about each other.",
      "book": "Rabbit and Weasel", "source": "Rabbit and Weasel.docx" },
    { "text": "The truth was, weasel felt lonely and rabbit felt crowded but neither of them knew the others truth.",
      "book": "Rabbit and Weasel", "source": "Rabbit and Weasel.docx" },

    { "text": "We've worried about the idea of creating computers as smart as or smarter than we are, at least since the 1950's.",
      "book": "iFrankenstein", "source": "iFrankenstein.docx" },
    { "text": "In fact, AlphaGo writes its own code and plays games against itself recursively improving its code with each game.",
      "book": "iFrankenstein", "source": "iFrankenstein.docx" },

    { "text": "In 999,999 of 1,000,000 cases the dose of radiation from an MRI has no lasting effect on the target.",
      "book": "He Killed Himself that Day", "source": "He killed himself that day.docx" },
    { "text": "Sometimes the mutation is good and sometimes (as in his case) the mutation is bad, very very bad.",
      "book": "He Killed Himself that Day", "source": "He killed himself that day.docx" },

    { "text": "When a theory aligns with your worldview, you're less likely to stress-test the math.",
      "book": "Lightning Killed the Mastodons", "source": "AI Conversation_Lightning Killed the Mastadons.docx (parenthetical trimmed)" },
    { "text": "The population sizes you were using in our earlier math exercise were educated guesses, not hard numbers from studies.",
      "book": "Lightning Killed the Mastodons", "source": "AI Conversation_Lightning Killed the Mastadons.docx" },

    { "text": "Most importantly to policy makers and public opinion, not one American sailor was within 1000 miles when the Chinese Navy was destroyed.",
      "book": "World War III: The Chips War", "source": "World War III The Chips War .docx" },
    { "text": "Like other dynasties before it, the CCP saw in war a means to restore order and assert its authority.",
      "book": "World War III: The Chips War", "source": "World War III The Chips War .docx" },

    { "text": "Diffraction is not the limit and never will be.",
      "book": "Macroscope", "source": "00 PROPOSAL - Macroscope.md" },
    { "text": "There is no physical beam combination across such distances, and none is proposed.",
      "book": "Macroscope", "source": "00 PROPOSAL - Macroscope.md" }
  ]
}