“Proceed as the way opens.”
–Quaker Proverb
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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
— Victor Hugo
from “Les Miserables”
Space I
“Those parts of the earth not yet trodden by the foot of man, where nature is left to itself, are becoming more and more rare at the end of the nineteenth century. Future generations will only find in fossil traces of those gigantic animals which an unknown law is sweeping little by little from the face of the globe, giving preferences to races smaller and better adapted to lack of space and to the ever-increasing invasion of humanity.”
— Edouard Foa, F.R.G.S.
“After Big Game in Central Africa” c.1899
Wild Black Mamba
“With a hiss like some weird, ice-cold version of a steam boiler rupturing, a sound I’ll hear in sweat-soaked dreams for many years to come, first one, then a second dull, gunmetal length of murder appeared, as if by witchcraft, four feet in front of my face. The larger snake was directly ahead, the other facing me also, but within reach of Silent. I remember wondering idly if, like many reptiles, the female was the larger. I stood frozen, watching the mouths agape, showing the terrible black lining, strings of saliva hanging like delicate wet cobwebs between the upper and lower jaws.”
— Peter H. Capstick
“Mamba Means Death” c.1979
“Blogging is not writing; it’s graffiti with punctuation.”
–Elliot Gould’s character in the film “Contagion”.
“The country is quite covered by darkness, so that people outside it cannot see anything in it; and no one dares go in for fear of the darkness. Nevertheless men who live in the country round about say that they can sometimes hear the voices of men, and horses neighing, and cocks crowing, and thereby that some kind of folks live there, but they do not know what kind of folk they are.”
—The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, c1360
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
–Kurt Vonnegut
“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.”
–Edgar Allan Poe
“Silence – A Fable”
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