“Ptolemy Horoscope is an astrologer and interpreter of the stars. In 1716 he is living in Little Britain, the “bibliopolitical part of London,”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“But Horoscope is not home when Turpin comes to him for advice, so Horoscope's assistant, Titus Parable, poses as Horoscope.”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“(The Kiowa didn’t scalp, and the real Mescalero did not live in pueblos, but factual accuracy, for May, was something that happened to other writers).”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“Those interested in excellent, discomfort-inducing horror should read the first four chapters of The Beetle. Those interested in watching potential be wasted should continue beyond that.”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“Gertrude is sweet and trusting and innocent in the ways of men, which is why she falls victim to such a selfish, self-absorbed putz.”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“Hallblithe was created by William Morris and appeared in The Story of the Glittering Plain Which Has Also Been Called the”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“Mr. Gespenst was created by E.E. Kellett and appeared in “The Tables Turned” (Pearson’s Magazine, January 1903). Ernest Edward Kellett (1864-1950) wrote widely on subjects from literature to music to religion. He also created Nameless Man (VI). “The Tables Turned” is an amusing comic ghost story.”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“Shelley was also the wife of the great poet and rotter Percy Bysshe Shelley.”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“And the and-then-I-woke-up-and-it-was-all-a-dream ending is simply inexcusable in fiction intended for an audience over the age of four. The Golden Bottle will take two hours from the readers’ life that they won’t get back.”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“Rodolphe manages to protect her from those who would ruin her, and eventually she is redeemed and sent to a convent, where her innate goodness is instantly recognized and she is made an abbess. (She dies from the honor).”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“The plague is by far the most interesting part of The Betrothed.”
― quote from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“The path taken by the authorities in their so-called Rauschgiftbekämpfung, or “war on drugs,” lay less in an intensification of the opium law, which was simply adopted from the Weimar Republic,21 than in several new regulations that served the central National Socialist idea of “racial hygiene.” The term Droge—drug—which at one point meant nothing more than “dried plant parts,”* was given negative connotations. Drug consumption was stigmatized and—with the help of quickly established new divisions of the criminal police—severely penalized. This new emphasis came into force as early as November 1933, when the Reichstag passed a law that allowed the imprisonment of addicts in a closed institution for up to two years, although that period of confinement could be extended indefinitely by legal decree.22”
― quote from Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
“Se eu te pudesse dizer
O que nunca te direi,
Tu terias que entender
Aquilo que nem eu sei.”
― Fernando Pessoa, quote from Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.”
― Margaret Rogerson, quote from An Enchantment of Ravens
“They were called “minimalists,” and they thought that the best route to happiness was not by getting more, but by having less.”
― James Wallman, quote from Stuffocation: Living More with Less
“Our mother might've said this: that immigrants are the strongest, that we leave our homes behind and rebuild. Everywhere we go, we rebuild.”
― Mira T. Lee, quote from Everything Here Is Beautiful
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