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(If seeing the concept of purity used like this is making your skin crawl, (A) good for you! (B) I recommend a trip down the hall to the Philosophy Lab where Alexis Shot well is brewing up work on the destructive effects of purity as a concept in our modern world. Each lab brews different things to make our world better: Chem Lab, new meds; Physics Lab, new particles; History and Philosophy Labs, new proofs that Nazis are wrong.)

— Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer (duplicate) (Page 39)

But all she had to do was grope out a hand to find her breakfast, set on the bedside table: a glass of malt vinegar in which a raw egg had been cracked

— Gogmagog by Jeff Noon, Steve Beard (Page 5)

Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe climatic provinces, fluctuations of annual weather and occasionally may observe such things as 'This is a colder year than I've ever known. Such things are sensible. But humans are seldom alerted to the shifting average through a great span of years. And it is precisely in this alerting that humans learn how to survive on any planet. They must learn climate.

-Arrakis, the Transformation, after Harq al-Ada

— Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #3) (Page 314)