Anchor: Perhaps the absoluteness of the act of writing, in effect, his own elegy--and the absoluteness of his inability to answer his critics afterward--curiously mellowed him.
Entailed: He was mellowed by being unable to answer critics. 
Contradiction: He panicked at the prospect of explanation.
Contradiction: After reading the book about Microsoft, I think Stross has a lot of people who are equally smart.
Contradiction: Two men are standing outside a building under construction.
Contradiction: He never spoke to Mr. Wells.
Contradiction: There is a boy in this picture, and he is outside.