“The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?”
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 4, "The Sorcerer Pharesm"
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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013Related quotes
“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
Pt. I.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“To that creature, being born,
Its birthday is a day to mourn.”
Stato che sia, dentro covile o cuna,
È funesto a chi nasce il dì natale.
Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia (Night song of a nomadic shepherd in Asia) (1829-1830). Translation by Eamon Grennan, Leopardi: Selected Poems [Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-691-01644-5], p. 62
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