jon zellweger2d ago
Wholly unique and stirring. Like Burroughs, Hoban constructs a new language to place the reader within the time and space of the titular character. At some point, your brain warps and it takes on a deeper meaning than the words themselves — you come to deeply posses the mythology of the time and people in which it’s set. 
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#riddleywalker #russellhoban #sciencefiction #dystopia #apocalypse #england #eusa #punch
Who is C. P. Boyko?Feb 22
But now, long silence fills the day
and all my hopes have ebbed away.
I think perhaps some colder sea
sorts me from you and you from me.
-- Russell Hoban, “Fred To Samantha”
sheesh, russ
#poetry #streetart #scrabble #russellhoban
Solar Branka Feb 4

"And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private."

~ Russell Hoban, born today, 1925.

#RussellHoban #Quote #Today

Home – Matter NewsApr 10, 2025

Joey Monsoon explores the cycle of creation and destruction in ‘Arga Warga’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://matternews.org/culture/art/joey-monsoon-explores-the-cycle-of-creation-and-destruction-in-arga-warga/

Joey Monsoon explores the cycle of creation and destruction in ‘Arga Warga’ – Matter News

The Columbus artist’s new, long-in-the-works exhibition, which opens at Lindsay Gallery on Saturday, April 12, takes inspiration from Gustav Klimt’s painting ‘The Beethoven Frieze’ and ‘Riddley Walker,’ the dystopian sci-fi novel by writer Russell Hoban.

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Dr Hawkins Brimble ✅Apr 19, 2024
#RiddleyWalker #RussellHoban
Dave AwlFeb 4, 2024
Happy 99th birthday to the waves and particles that used to be Russell Hoban! I've always loved this quote about the seen and unseen lives we live. #SA4QE #RussellHoban
Show threadSapAug 12, 2023

This put me in mind of recent events:

'I've got it!' shouted Muskrat.
'What?' said the mouse and his child together.
'X!' said Muskrat, 'X!'
The fireflies abandoned all reserve, and flashed with such a light that Muskrat's shadow loomed up huge and black upon the wall behind him.
'He's done it!' said the father to the child. 'He's made the leap'.

#RussellHoban #TheMouseAndHisChild

Show threadSapAug 8, 2023
'Why into Here often equals There, and so one moves about'
Muskrat in #TheMouseAndHisChild by #RussellHoban
SapAug 8, 2023

'BEYOND THE LAST VISIBLE DOG!' shouted Crow. 'There!' he said to his wife. 'See how it pays off? Up and up and up, and then Zonk! BEYOND THE LAST VISIBLE DOG!'
'It's getting me now', said Mrs Crow. 'But what does it mean?'
Crow flung his broad wings like a black cloak. 'What doesn't it mean!' he said.

From The Mouse And His Child by Russell Hoban. It's a children's book, apparently.
#RussellHoban

High Mome Djecibel AesterJun 29, 2023

“The way is certainly both short and steep, / However #gradual it looks from here; / Look if you like, but you will have to leap.”

W.H. Auden #MastoPrompt

This quote opens #RussellHoban 's children's novel of universal appeal #theMouseAndHisChild.