One moment it was a calculating machine, attempting dispassionately to keep up with the gouts of data. And then awash in those gouts, something metal twitched and a patter of valves sounded that had n...
This gentleman is cactus, said Doul.
I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a...
Everything, even the dirt, was poised.
They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.
Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.
Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house.
The children from the bridge were often waiting there, eyeing me. They congregated by the stump and played a game involving motions as strange as those of worship. To me it looked as if they were feel...
No existe nada igual en ningún sitio -dijo -. En ningún sitio. No se trata de los sonidos. No es en los sonidos donde vive el significado.
He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic.
Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did a political method. For many b those heady moments, Kerensky exemplified 'the...
—Ilse Aichinger, The Bound Man
Открой-ка рот. И как у тебя язык повернулся разболтать о спруте приятелям. Ведь не должен был повернуться. (с) Коллингсвуд
Walls and ceilings moved with ratcheting mechanical life like the offspring of chains and crabs.
Maybe it was always that way and everyone has always been forever waking in a flustered confusion deep at night trying to believe that the awful sound they think woke them was nothing, or was the nerv...
But here’s the problem you’re not addressing. While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent...
This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.
Sometimes he opened books and found words that had defeated him the first time he had seen them, and that he had then written down and learned. It delighted him. He felt like a fox that had tracked th...
An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the...