Listen my darling, here’s the situation – Wait … , I’m talkin to a robot here, right? Again. So! uh-huh! how you’re doing? how long you been a robot … You wouldn’t be Jewish, by any chance? Yeah, like...
His life had been tied to the past. He’d seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history—a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave. S...
Dream tonight of peacock tails,Diamond fields and spouter whales.Ills are many, blessings few,But dreams tonight will shelter you.Let the vampire's creaking wingHide the stars while banshees sing;Let...
Cyprian was captivated by eyes, but only by those that looked away, with either indifference or active distaste. It was not enough for her to return his gaze. She must then direct her own to other mat...
Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.
Consider, replies the Geomancer, — Adam and Eve ate fruit from a Tree, and were enlighten’d. The Buddha sat beneath a Tree, and he was enlighten’d. Newton, also sitting beneath a Tree, was hit by a fa...
As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.
As ever, he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies, their inability to hold back, the purity of the not-yet-dishonest,— 'twould take a harder Case than Mason not to struggle with Tears of Sent...
After that long of more named pavements than he’d care to count, Profane had grown a little leery of streets, especially streets like this. They had in fact all fused into a single abstracted Street,...
A weapon based on Time . . . mused Viktor Mulciber. Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you coul...
A phrase (it often happened when he was exhausted) kept cycling round and round, preconsicously, just under the threshold of lip and tongue movement: Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic. I...
That's what Jesus meant, whispers the ghost of Slothrop's first American ancestor William, venturing out on the Sea of Galilee. He saw it from the lemming point of view. Without the millions who had p...
Street cred. Anybody who got in before ’97 is considered OK – from ’97 to 2000 it can go either way, maybe they’re not not always cool, but usually they’re not quite the kind of full-service dickhead...
He shared his place with a Dr. Tubeside, whose practice consisted largely of injecting people with vitamin B12, a euphemism for the physician's own blend of amphetamines. Today, early as it was, Doc s...