‘Recipients were given a thumb sized serving to start their trip. What Dr. Moreau, the proprietor of the event, would tell Gautier when he gave him his dollop, “This will be deducted from your share in Paradise.”’
“Folk rumor said they were sterile by choice, that they saw breeding as the beginning of death.”
Wanekia
“He was said to have caused a block of ice to fall out of the sky on a summer day, to be able to end drought with rain or snow, to light his pipe with the sun, and to form icicles in his hands.”
“When the hurdy-gurdy man plays, someone is always trying to take a nap.”
To quote Hetfield, “My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.”
‘not to overcome crisis but to “surf” the tsunami of “creative destruction”’
“…the story calls a female character Kapalika, whose lover dies, he is cremated, she takes his cremation ashes and smears her body with it.”