“The whole of modern so-called civilised existence is an attempt to deny reality insofar as it exists. When did Don last look at the stars, when did Norman last get soaked in a rainstorm? The stars as far as these people are concerned are the Manhattan-pattern!”

— John Brunner, book Stand on Zanzibar

He jerked his thumb at a window beyond which the city’s treasure-house of coloured light glimmered gaudily.
continuity (13) “Multiply by a Million”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

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British author 1934–1995

John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar

continuity (13) “Multiply by a Million”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

“When you have nothing more to say,
when the stars bleed
and the flowers crucified,
at last, go away, far off,
when the light crying in night
and the child doesn'r dream,
then, go far away,
between existences there is the freedom,
of infinity the mutiny.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: An ocean of souls

“There was a time when evilness did not exist, and there will be a time when it will no more exist, whereas there was no time when virtue did not exist, and there will be no time when it will not exist. For the germs of virtue are impossible to destroy.”

Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk

Kephalaia Gnostika 1.40

“A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

We The Living (1936)

“As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

“And When Did You Last See Your Father?”

William Frederick Yeames (1835–1918) british painter

Title of a painting that depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Roundheads during the English Civil War. The painting is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.