Off-topic ramblings

Usage examples of tangents.

Isaac’s tangents paper was in his hand, but he stood still for a few moments, trying to work out where this rat was busy, so that he could come back in daylight and investigate.

He set the tangents paper down on a table and then picked up an iron bar that was lying next to a furnace door for use as a poker.

After a while Isaac would begin to slash straight lines into the gravel, building up a scaffold of rays, perpendiculars, tangents, chords, and normals.

I just reread that Castrato business, and it strikes me that I am probably just one or two twisted tangents away from terminal fusing of the brain circuits.

The Change Speakers modulate all the reality tangents to the plane of our embedding here.

Little globes of sweat were drifting away on a thousand tangents and vanishing as they reached the edges of the cylinder of light.

If Hamilton goes off on one of his tangents, he'll be throwing wrenches in everywhere.