Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth. Here, perhaps, was an even stranger sea—not circular, but cylindrical.
Arthur C. Clarke • Rendezvous with Rama
People ain’t like you think, Patera. Maybe you studied a long time, but there’s a lot that you don’t know.”
Gene Wolfe • Nightside The Long Sun: The First Volume of the Book of the Long Sun
The Complete Book of the New Sun: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun
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A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress. An Old Mortality, say rather an Immortality, with unwearied patience and faith making plain the image engraven in men’s bodies, the God of whom they are but defaced and leaning monuments.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Pursue your personal canon to its obscure points of origin.
Shore Leave • Like Shining From Shook Foil
to Samuel R. Delaney’s seminal Nova.
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North
‘Wer reitet so spät, Durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater Mit seinem Kind.’