Jinian Star-Eye

Quotes

1. I have in recent years often reflected upon memory. One takes it so for granted. One remembers with such facile infallibility. And one finds with such shock – at least it was a shock to me – that memory isn’t true.

   p. 23

2. 

   Sometimes there is such crowding that there is irritation, and this makes fear or anger; and following fear comes meetings of councils to make regulations; and following regulations is further irritation at the laws that are made.

   p. 37

3. 

   “I don’t know the sensible plant,” said Cat wonderingly. “Where may it be found?”

   “It cannot be found,” the Gardener replied. “It is extinct.”

   p. 147

4. 

   It cheered me a little. Enmities among one’s enemies are always comforting.

   p. 157

5. 

   One hates to think that all of existence is trivial.

   p. 24

6. 

   The tallest Father preached. He stood before us in robes of gleaming white, surrounded by the smoke of sweet incense, fondling his groin from time to time as he talked of St. Phallus. St. Phallus loomed behind the altar, erect, massive, as though ready to rape the world. It was not the first such monument I had seen. Wherever men were ignorant and hungry for power, I had seen these things, though never one as large as this. Father fondled his groin and preached.

   “Holy fruit of St. Phallus,” he said.

   “Clean seed planted in filthy ground,” he said.

   “Corrupted by dirty woman-wombs,” he said.

   p. 88

7. 

   They were betrayed, Oracle. Ganver tells me there is no anger greater than that of a zealot betrayed.

   p. 227

8. 

   There was a great mob of the Oracle’s Brotherhood, dancing in their ribbons, chanting and shouting in a zealot’s parody of purpose, a frantic anarchy that could see no farther than the next bit of inflammatory oratory being shouted on every corner.

   p. 48

9. 

   He rejoices to have done with the dead. The living need our attentions more, he says. Who can argue with that?

   p. 234

10. 

    We might be able to do something. If we were very lucky, it might even be the right thing.

    p. 6

11. 

    It went on, “If you accuse, then you must judge.”

    “You let your accusers be your judges?” asked Peter, astounded.

    “Who else should be satisfied?” it asked. “If one’s accusers cannot be satisfied, what is justice?”

    “One’s accusers might be mad,” Peter suggested, very unwisely I thought, considering where we were. “Mad, and incapable of being satisfied.”

    p. 33

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