|
50cd847
|
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
|
|
police
|
Jack Williamson |
|
06e2b4e
|
Her long body stiffened against him. Her cool fingers tightened in his shaggy fur, and her bare, clinging heels dug deep into his heaving flanks. She was sweet against him, and the clear logic of this new life conquered the dreary conventions of that old, dim existence where he had walked in bitter death.
|
|
sex
|
Jack Williamson |
|
9bcd221
|
And there would come up from the sea its voice; and the sea has no voice, but mysteriously touches the strings within the soul of a man, so that the soul speaks in its own way, each soul lifting its peculiar message.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
92c34d9
|
Barbee had wondered about insanity, sometimes with a brooding dread - for his own father, whom he scarcely remembered, had died in the forbidding stone pile of the state asylum. He had vaguely supposed that a mental breakdown must be somehow strange and thrilling, with an exciting conflict of horrible depression and wild elation. But perhaps it was more often like this, just a baffled apathetic retreat from problems grown too difficult to s..
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
51d73c4
|
Your danger is something other than death, and uglier. Because she will try to change you--to arouse something in you that should never be awakened.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
02e9c4c
|
supernatural, and my own rational philosophy is founded on proven science. But I still believe in hell." The dark man smiled. "For every man manufactures his own private hell and peoples it with demons of his own creation, to torment him for his own secret sins, imagined or real. It's my business to explore those personal hells and expose their demons for what they are. Usually they turn out to be much less terrifying than they seem."
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
c1fd1f0
|
With the vague hope that it might somehow explain his dream, he took one of his old textbooks from the shelves and tried to read the chapter on lycanthropy. The book cataloged the queerly universal primitive beliefs that human beings could change into dangerous carnivorous animals. He skimmed the list of human wolves and bears and jaguars, human tigers and alligators and sharks, human cats and human leopards and human hyenas. The were-tiger..
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
f1f127d
|
I fancy that the spirit of old Tom Hossie, wise with age and vastly weary of the labor and troublous delights of life, hungered and thirsted for death.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
8602ecb
|
We're never quite so powerful as we feel, in this free state," she whispered in the rushing wind. "Because our usual bodies are left behind, and our moving mind complexes can draw only upon the chance energies that they happen to grasp from the atoms of the air or other substances we possess, by the linkage of probability. All our power lies in that control of probability, and we must strike where it will serve."
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
92793dd
|
Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening wore on, began to seem remarkable for utter lack of anything noteworthy. It began to appear as a fragile never-never land, populated with timid souls in continual retreat from the real world outside and even from one another within.
|
|
insanity
|
Jack Williamson |
|
de9385c
|
Perhaps that was just a hunch." Barbee shivered again. He knew that he himself possessed what he called the "nose for news" - an intuitive perception of human motivations and the impending events that would spring from them. It wasn't a faculty he could analyze or account for, but he knew that it wasn't unusual. Most successful reporters possessed it, he believed - even though, in an age of skepticism for everything except mechanistic mater..
|
|
sensitivity
intuition
alcoholism
|
Jack Williamson |
|
460606b
|
The trouble began when the first witch was hounded and stoned to death, by the first savage man. It will go on till the last witch is dead. Always, everywhere, men must follow that old Biblical law: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
eed78a2
|
I wonder-?" whispered April Bell, her long eyes narrowed and dark. "I wonder what they really found?" "Whatever it is," breathed Barbee, "the find doesn't seem to have made them very happy. A fundamentalist might think they had stumbled into hell." "No," the girl said, "men aren't that much afraid of hell."
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
52c0df3
|
I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.
|
|
public-opinion
knowledge
|
Jack Williamson |
|
9825cd9
|
was still afraid--not of the dark-lipped girl who seemed to be waiting for his kiss, not even of the twentieth-century sorceress she pretended to be, but rather of that vague and strangely terrifying feeling she aroused, of awakening senses and powers and old half memories in himself.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
1d05812
|
Wendre had appealed to Horn as no woman ever had. She had a man's mind and a woman's heart. She was self-reliant, proud, courageous. She grasped the situation quickly, accepted the odds, and did what had to be done without complaining. This was no spoiled child of empire, no sheltered darling of an all-powerful father; this was a woman fit to stand and fight beside any barbarian from the restless marches, made for love and ready to battle f..
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
e0fdb81
|
witch. A being born a little different, he preferred to phrase it. He remembered reading something about the Rhine experiments, at Duke University. Some people, those sober scientists had proved, perceived the world with something beyond the ordinary physical senses. Some people, they had demonstrated, displayed a direct control over probability, without the use of any physical agency.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
3491113
|
Sleep pressed upon him with an urgency that became resistless. And April Bell was calling to him. Her voice came clearly to him, above all the subdued murmur of traffic noises. It was a ringing golden chime, more penetrating than the occasional beep of a driver's horn or the far clamor of a streetcar. It shimmered out of the dark, in waves of pure light as green as her malachite eyes. Then he thought he could see her, somehow, far across ..
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
eb38182
|
Hurrying on, Barbee nodded to the workman as casually as he could. His skin felt goose-pimpled under the thin red robe, and he couldn't help shivering to a colder chill than he felt in the frosty air. For the quiet city, it seemed to him, was only a veil of painted illusion. Its air of sleepy peace concealed brooding horror, too frightful for sane minds to dwell upon. Even the cheery bricklayer with the lunch pail might - just might - be th..
|
|
suburbia
|
Jack Williamson |
|
19a747d
|
Si descubria nuevos mundos, poco importaba que fuese por error.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
694df65
|
Human belief is seldom related to truth.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
2f2bc03
|
Quietly she said: "I know I'm not insane."So, Barbee understood, did all lunatics.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
dd8b365
|
He certainly didn't feel insane, he reflected--but then did any lunatic, ever?
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
05d34a4
|
Conquerors live by conquest; the first failure is a signal for the conquered to rise against them.
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
e613f1f
|
Whatever a woman is," Wendre said, "she's that second and a woman first."
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |
|
eb634c5
|
Magic." He shot photos and shook his head. "Pure magic, till we learn enough to understand it."
|
|
|
Jack Williamson |