January 2011
58 posts
"I Make Monster Porn" | MetaFilter →
“Guillermo del Toro’s quest to get amazing creatures onscreen
BBC News - Jumping rabbits in Harrogate for 'grand... →
Wabbits!!!
“Lies are the words that I use when you look at me hopefully.”
– Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | MetaFilter
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“The bullets are gun-eggs,” Collingswood said to Baron, looking at Vardy. Farmers...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
(Gunfarmers, and hatching bullets! Is that not genius?)
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“You saw what would happen if it was stolen. So you stole it to stop it being...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
(self-fulfilling prophecy anyone?)
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“Creationism’s a way of thinking I am not worthless at a time when people were...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“The fucking angels of memory were out. They had come out of their museums, out...”
– Kraken - China Miéville
The Angels of Memory=awesome
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“Beam it up? What you done is ripped a man apart then stuck his bits back...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
Is that not a horrible idea!
Reminds me a little of (spoiler)
The Prestige (end spoiler)
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“Too much is going on, Dane. The angels are walking. We need to know why.”
– Kraken by China Miéville
The angels are walking! Is that ever a cool & evocative phrase or what!
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“THERE WERE PICKETS OF insects, pickets of birds, pickets of slightly animate...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
You don’t need me to tell you that I simply LOVE the idea of these unionised Familiars. What a brilliant idea!
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“This was about the city’s daydream. A fetishised seventies full of proper men....”
– Kraken by China Miéville
heh! That is the perfect role for Life On Mars
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“The hashish-eaters; the Hospitallers; Francis X Killy. Sanctioned wetworkers of...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“Call it banal if it makes you feel better but evil’s evil”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“The gods don’t owe us anything. That’s not why we worship. We worship because...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“We’re in the era of—alright, you’ll like this one, too—extreme origami.”
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“Under the tank was something utter and dark and moving, something so slowly...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
(yeah, for atmospheric-ness)
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We all love Philip Pullman! →
nymeth:
“I still remember the first library ticket I ever had. It must have been about 1957. My mother took me to the public library just off Battersea Park Road and enrolled me. I was thrilled. All those books, and I was allowed to borrow whichever I wanted! And I remember some of the first books I borrowed and fell in love with: the Moomin books by Tove Jansson; a French novel for children...
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“Sinking towards where there is no below”
– Kraken by China Miéville
(ooh, atmosphere building now)
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“Goss had a face wrong for the time. He looked stolen from some fifties. There...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
(isn’t strange how that happens! How can a face look like an age or era? And yet it happens)
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“He knows religion is bollocks,” Collingswood said. “He just wishes he didn’t....”
– Kraken by China Miéville
have to say that I know how that feels :)
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“Come on,” said Billy. “This is batshit.” He pleaded. “A religion about squid?”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“Folklore was self-generating.”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“BILLY HAD BAD DREAMS. He was not the only one. There was no way yet he could...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“He had since forever been working on a book called Uncanny Blossom. When Leon...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“An everyday doomsayer in sandwich-board abruptly walked away from what over the...”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“The sea is full of saints.”
– Kraken by China Miéville
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“At a time now past, a cat was born.”
– The cat who walked a thousand miles by Kij Johnson
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“You can’t trust photographs”
– Tamar by Mal Peet (260)
“Joy is the true enemy of fascism.”
– Tamar by Mal Peet (p. 188)
“It’s a very private thing, losing your mind. And all sorts of people,...”
– Tamar by Mal Peet
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“Performing dogs. We’re neither more nor less. A slight crack of the whip....”
– How many miles to Babylon pg. 86
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“It appears to me that you attach the adjective English to anything you don’t...”
– How many miles to Babylon
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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“Then the reader is treated to a female gelding, a male mare, or a rider moving a...”
– Writing Horses (chap 1)
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“the sexual weakness that makes woman depend on man for a subsistence, produces a...”
– Vindication of the rights of woman (chap. 12)
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“marriage will never be held sacred till women by being brought up with men, are...”
– A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (chap 12)
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“a right always includes a duty”
– Vindication of the rights of woman
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“This strict hand may, in some degree, account for the weakness of women; for...”
– Vindication of the rights of woman
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“the care of children in their infancy is one of the grand duties annexed to the...”
– Vindication of the right of woman
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“Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational...”
– Vindication of the rights of women
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“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are, in some degree,...”
– Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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“There is a homely proverb, which speaks a shrewd truth, that whoever the devil...”
– Vindication of the rights of woman
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“This regard for reputation, independent of its being one of the natural rewards...”
– Vindication of the rights of woman 