Beasts - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Beasts [Amazon, Local Library] by John Crowley. (n.b. included in Otherwise: Three Novels [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library]) When I started reading John Crowley’s 1976 novel Beasts, I felt inadequately informed by the manimal vein of science fiction. I have not read Wells’ Island of Dr. Moreau nor […]
“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will have to deal with them, too. Keep in mind, though, that we need control only three per cent of the energy surface—only three per cent—to tip the entire structure over into our self-sustaining system.” - The Hermetic Library Blog
“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will […]
“Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come,” Tuek said. “Speed is a device of Shaitan.” - The Hermetic Library Blog
“Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come,” Tuek said. “Speed is a device of Shaitan.” Frank Herbert, Dune [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “Weren’t librarians meant to care about educating kids? So what if that education was about dark magic?” Supergod “Good grief, Sal thought. This is awful. They […]
"Seeing this world as it was rather than through the fabular lens of Gramps’s stories was fucking enlightening." - The Hermetic Library Blog
Seeing this world as it was rather than through the fabular lens of Gramps’s stories was fucking enlightening. Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “The secrets of his mental nature and the principles of intellectual life became at this stage gradually unfolded to his view. […]
John Griogair Bell
