“Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“The hymns were unfamiliar to him, but he quickly picked up the general beat. The hymns had a redundant simplicity; the same phrases and tones appeared and reappeared. The same monotonous ideas, repeated indefinitely. The appetite of (Tetragrammaton) was insatiable, he concluded. A childish, nebulous personality that required constant praise—and in the most obvious terms. Quick to anger, (Tetragrammaton) was equally quick to sink into euphoria, was eager and ready to lap up these blatant flatteries.
A balance. A method of lulling the Deity. But what a delicate mechanism. Danger for everyone…The easily-aroused Presence that was always nearby. Always listening.”
— Philip K. Dick, book Eye in the Sky
Source: Eye in the Sky (1957), Chapter 7 (pp. 97-98)
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