“Isn’t not knowing a good thing? I read somewhere that it was. Or that it could be? Or might be? Of course, I cannot know.”
Rhonda Carstairs, A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.
“I don’t know, Havers, but I doubt that I would be so eager to brag. About not being able to see it.”
Ellen Entwhistle, The Caravan Murders.
What a secular world shows, always, is the absolute failure of imagination.
Pamela Hrothgar, No Stone Unturned.
Language is our means of getting at language. Hence our difficulties as we attempt to get at the mystery of language.
Palmer Coates, The Dark Afternoon of the Soul.
—If [the past] had been so great it never would have changed.
—No. You are quite wrong, sir. That it changed is proof that it was great. Or comparatively so. You see, change is destruction. And destruction, sir, is evil.
Paul Enderby, The Universal Adjustment Bureau.
What intellectuals say forms a powerful indicator of the way things are not. How the world isn’t. One could ask: What is their track record?
Jason K. Broadus, The Ice of My Dreams.
“Well, the kids today think that they know everything,” groaned Mrs. Pyrtle.
“Actually, they do know everything,” replied Mr. Cowlishaw. “Everything about the world as thimble.“
Will Hewes, Little To Do.
I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot. I am not a robot.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
Social Media: the demotic Romanticism of the 1960s counter-culture taken to nightmarish proportions—universal self-expression.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
“What is the matter that disturbeth you so?” demanded Mr. Hotchkiss.
“Matter,” quoth the Pupil.
Benedict Hooke, The Ascent of Childe Worthham. (1784)
