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It's one of his more obscure, almost always out of print.
Basically, it's about a highway that leads pretty much everywhere - past, future, alternate timelines as well as physical destinations. Pretty light, but worth reading!
Basically, it's about a highway that leads pretty much everywhere - past, future, alternate timelines as well as physical destinations. Pretty light, but worth reading!
Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?
Okay. . . here is one for you. . can you guess it?
Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert.
Never before had Brother Francis actually seen a pilgrim with girded loins, but that this one was the bona fide article he was convinced as soon as he had recovered from the spine-chilling effect of the pilgtim's advent on the far horizon, as a wiggling black iota caught in a shimmering haze of heat.
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Ha! At last, one I can do without looking it up! It's A Canticle for Lebowitz.
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
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This should be, somewhat easy, but I'm skipping the first sentence to make it harder
"...A thunderstorm was brewing to the north. Bruise-black clouds silhouetted a forest of giant gymnosperms while stratocumulus towered nine kilometers high in a violent sky. Lightning rippled along the horizon. Closer to the ship, occasional vague, reptilian shapes would blunder into the interdiction field, cry out, and then crash away through indigo mists."
"...A thunderstorm was brewing to the north. Bruise-black clouds silhouetted a forest of giant gymnosperms while stratocumulus towered nine kilometers high in a violent sky. Lightning rippled along the horizon. Closer to the ship, occasional vague, reptilian shapes would blunder into the interdiction field, cry out, and then crash away through indigo mists."
fall far and well Pilots!
Yes- to quoute the only thing I remember from the book: "Hello Adolf! Are you still looking for that place where you won?"Sorus wrote:It's one of his more obscure, almost always out of print.
Basically, it's about a highway that leads pretty much everywhere - past, future, alternate timelines as well as physical destinations. Pretty light, but worth reading!
Not the most memorable Zelazny, but the first one I ever bought.
"Und wenn sie mich suchen, ich halte mich in der Nähe des Wahnsinns auf." Bernd das Brot
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I'll give it one more week. Come on somebody guess! duchess knows this--but her head may be still spinning from the Mich./Ball St. game.
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fall far and well Pilots!
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Yeah, that's right. Pull me in from lurking, why don't you?danlo wrote:I'll give it one more week. Come somebody guess! duchess knows this--but her head may be still spinning from the Mich./Ball St. game.
It's from one of my favorite science fiction books of all time!
Spoiler
Dan Simmons's Hyperion.
But does anyone else know?
Now, back to occasional light lurking until I get some of the stress in my life under a bit more control.
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Ok. Here we go.
This is the first paragraph of one of the most charming and funny books I have ever read, one of my favorite reads of all time, and one I reread frequently.
This is the first paragraph of one of the most charming and funny books I have ever read, one of my favorite reads of all time, and one I reread frequently.
I am a watchdog. My name is Snuff. I live with my master Jack outside of London now. I like Soho very much at night with its smelly fogs and dark streets. It is silent then and we go for long walks. Jack is under a curse from long ago and must do much of his work at night to keep worse things from happening. I keep watch while he is about it. If someone comes, I howl.
edit for dinkasaurus rex.
A Night in the Lonesome October.
i haven't read it i googled (cheater that i am). but i intend to.
great premise, great passage.
reminded me of this.
A Night in the Lonesome October.
i haven't read it i googled (cheater that i am). but i intend to.
great premise, great passage.
reminded me of this.
iWhen I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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Preliminary notes to the second, reconstructed and revised, edition. The auther assures the reader that he will not have to die if he reads this book......
The truth is a Lion and does not need protection. Once free it will look after itself.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard