“A horrid Monster, huge, deform'd, and blind.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 103
“A horrid Monster, huge, deform'd, and blind.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.”
Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, Line 658 (tr. Mandelbaum); of Polyphemus.
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 4: Kester
(review of 'The Lights Outside the Windows' by James White (collected in "Deadly Litter") https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-universe-is-antagonist-enough, 2014
2010s
Announcing his departure from UKIP https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/12/04/heavy-heart-leaving-ukip-not-brexit-party-nation-badly-needs/, 4 December 2018
2018
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship."
"It's awful worse luck not to.”
p, 125
Accent on Form: An Anticipation of the Science of Tomorrow (1955)