"Scientific people," proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, "know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.... That line, therefore, we must conclude, was along the Time Dimension."
"We tend to think about non-human intelligences in two distinct categories which we label 'scientific' and 'supernatural.' ... But the very moment we are compelled to recognize a creature in either class as real, the distinction begins to get blurred."
"Much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. To and fro in the seven chambers stalked a multitude of dreams."
"It is the bone of a man’s head," [Mowgli] said quietly.
"They came to take the treasure away many years ago." The White Cobra fairly shook with evil delight. "I spoke to them in the dark, and they lay still...."
"There's a snake on the western wave,
And his crest is red.
He's as long as a city street,
And he eats the dead.
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
Where the snake goes down.
And he waits in the bottom of the sea
For the men that drown...."
Vachel Lindsay, "Sea Serpent Chantey"
🎨 James W. Buel #BookologyThursday
"The Well at the World's End" (1896) by William Morris features Ralph, prince of Upmeads, as he quests for the Well at the World's End. Very influential, arguably the first fantasy novel whose world has a completely invented geography distinct from our own. #BookologyThursday#BookChatWeekly
The early sci-fi novel "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott features an inhabitant of a two-dimensional world (Mr. A. Square) who meets a three-dimensional visitor. Later, Mr. Square meets a 1D being, and has the same power over him that the 3D being had over Mr. Square. #BookologyThursday#BookChatWeekly
"They talked trees from morning to night, stirred in her the old subconscious trail of dread, a trail that led ever into the darkness of big woods; and such feelings, as her early evangelical training taught her, were temptings...."
-Algernon Blackwood, "The Man Whom The Trees Loved" #BookologyThursday
"Clarke [saw] the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all.... The wood was hushed, and for a moment he stood face to face with a presence neither man nor beast."
"Our home is—here!" A burst of wild, high laughter, loud and shrill, accompanied the words. It was like a whistling wind. The wind had risen, and clouds obscured the moon. "A little higher—where we cannot hear the wicked church bells!"
"I am lost! Somebody possesses my soul and governs it! Somebody orders all my movements, all my thoughts. I am no longer master of myself, nothing except an enslaved and terrified spectator.... I wish to go out; I cannot. HE does not wish to."
"It was a castle made entirely out of food.... It rose from its lake of milk in a mystic light of its own -- in a greasy, buttery glow. It was the fairy aspect of Castle Chariot, which the [fairies] had thought would be tempting."
The author C. S. Lewis once sent a letter giving advice on writing. Along with the traditional advice of show don't tell, use direct language, etc., Lewis also recommended writing the first draft by hand instead of by typewriter in order to maintain the proper rhythm. #BookologyThursday#BookChatWeekly
In Egyptian folklore, great heroes are often wise magicians instead of warriors. One of the most prominent was Setne Khamwas. He was based on the historical Prince Khaemweset, who was fascinated by Egypt's history and restored many ancient tombs and temples. #FolkloreThursday#BookChatWeekly
"I know that I hung on a windy tree
Nine long nights,
Wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
Myself to myself,
On that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run...."