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“This was not the time for rage but for politics and strategy.”
China Miéville
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The Tain
The Tain (p. 252)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)
If you take something like Cthulhu in Lovecraft, for example, it is completely incomprehensible and beyond all human categorization. But in the game Call of Cthulhu, you see Cthulhu’s “strength,” “dexterity,” and so on, carefully expressed numerically. There’s something superheroically banalifying about that approach to the fantastic. On one level it misses the point entirely, but I must admit it appeals to me in its application of some weirdly misplaced rigor onto the fantastic: it’s a kind of exaggeratedly precise approach to secondary world creation.
Interview with Joan Gordon http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm
“Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable.”
China Miéville
Embassytown
Zdroj: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 27 (p. 312)
“I don’t want to be a simile anymore, I want to be a metaphor.”
China Miéville
Embassytown
Zdroj: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 24 (p. 296)
“There wasn’t even any reasoning. Secrecy was just a bureaucrats’ reflex.”
China Miéville
Embassytown
Zdroj: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 22 (p. 276)
“What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.”
China Miéville
Embassytown
Zdroj: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 239)
“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
China Miéville
Embassytown
Zdroj: “And there aren’t any.”
“Mmm,” I said. “Awkward.”
“That’s defeatist talk. I’ll cobble something together. A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
Zdroj: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 0.3 (p. 37)
“It’s beyond words, there’s no such thing.”
China Miéville
Embassytown
Zdroj: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 0.3 (p. 29)