Филип Хосе Фармер цитаты

He stood out among these youths like <…> a corpse on a banquet table.
перевод: О. Васант, 1997
«Первокурсник» (The Freshman), 1979
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Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection.
глава «The moment of truth»; встречается в изданиях книги Артура Блоха «Murphy's law and other reasons why things go wrong!» (1977) как минимум с 2000 года
«Венера на раковине» (Venus on the Half-Shell), 1975
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Their ideas of what a god should be did not necessarily coincide with the god's own ideas.
перевод: Э. Раткевич, 1997
«Пробуждение каменного Бога» (The Stone God Awakens), 1970
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Zelazny, telling of gods and wizards, uses magical words as if he himself were a wizard. He reaches into the subconscious and invokes archetypes to make the hair rise on the back of your neck. Yet these archetypes are transmuted into a science fictional world that is as believable — and as awe-inspiring — as the world you now live in.
1980
Источник: Roger Zelazny. The Last Defender of Camelot. Pocket Books, 1980, back cover blurb.

Farmer writes from one of the most brilliantly untrammelled imaginations I’ve ever known, but he has often seemed lacking in that self-critical faculty <…>. The results have usually, in recent years, been abortive and Farmer’s hallmark has been the imprisonment of his glowing ideas in wooden and inflexible prose.
Тед Уайт, 1969
Источник: "The Future in Books", Amazing Stories, July 1969, p. 123.

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[Her] perfume was delicate and at the same time with the hint of an odor like a tiger in ambush.
там же
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Источник: "On Books," Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1999, p. 136.

The President looked old enough to have created the Big Bang.
вариант распространённой мысли
«Ничто не сгорит в аду» http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?19789 (Nothing Burns in Hell), 1998
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Источник: "On Books," Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1999, p. 136.

[The house] looked like an enormous white box which was still not large enough to contain all the troubles and woes of the owners.
там же
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Источник: "On Books," Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1999, p. 136.

<…>

Farmer's best work is always recognized as his own and no one else's, <…> I think, that he is able to descend into his own subconcious mind and bring back visions that we can share because they are somehow our visions too.
Рассел Летсон, 1978
Источник: Russsell [Leston, ошибка в журнале] , "The Aleph", Galileo, January 1978, p. 97.

Philip Jose Farmer almost single-handedly originated this sub-genre of reworking/rethinking classics of sf and pieces of literature and history...
Говард Уолдроп, 1976
Источник: Delap's F & SF Review, November 1976, p. 31.

Роджер Желязны, предисловие к роману «Личный космос» http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?11920, 1968
Источник: От издательства // Филип Фармер. — Миры Филипа Фармера. Том 2 / составитель Д. Смушкович. — Рига: Полярис, 1996. — С. 8.

Альфред Бестер, 1961
Источник: "Books," F&SF, March 1961, p. 77-80.
Источник: Евгений Брандис, Владимир Дмитревский. Зеркало тревог и сомнений // Экспедиция на Землю [антология]. — М.: Мир, 1965. — С. 5-52.

Rubboys' technique consisted of putting a manuscript through a shredder, then pasting the strips at random for the finished product.
там же
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Above him the great lights struggled to overcome the darkness that lowered like the underside of a dead whale sinking into sea depths.
там же
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The theme he stresses in most of his work is that machines will someday be as human as Homo sapiens and perhaps superior to him. Mr. Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines; the death of one of his androids or computers actually wrings sorrow from the reader.
интервью The New York Times, 2 сентября 1984

перевод: И. Васильева, С. П. Трофимов, 1996
предисловие к «Реке Вечности», 1983

Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)
Контексте: The way is open, comrades, free as Space
Alone is free. The only gold is love,
A coin that we have minted from the light
Of others who have cared for us on Earth
And who have deposited in us the power
That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.

"Imagination" in America Sings (1949)
Контексте: Miles above the Earth we know,
Fancy's rocket roars. Below,
Here and Now are needles which
Sew a pattern black as pitch,
Waiting for the rocket's light.

"Imagination" in America Sings (1949)
Контексте: Miles above the Earth we know,
Fancy's rocket roars. Below,
Here and Now are needles which
Sew a pattern black as pitch,
Waiting for the rocket's light.

The Riverworld series, Gods of Riverworld (1983)
Контексте: The truth is that you can be immortal, relatively so, anyway. You won't last beyond the death of the universe and probably not nearly as long as the universe does. But you have the potentiality for living a million years, two, perhaps three or more. As long as you can find a Terrestrial-type planet with a hot core and have resurrection machinery available.
Unfortunately, not all can be permitted to possess immortality. Too many would make immortality miserable or hellish for the rest, and they would try to control others through their control of the resurrection machinery. Even so, everybody, without exception, is given a hundred years after his Earthly death to prove that he or she can live peacefully and in harmony with himself and the others, within the tolerable limits of human imperfections. Those who can do this will be immortal after the two projects are completed.

Источник: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 23 (p. 176)
Контексте: Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man’s faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

"Beauty in This Iron Age" in Starlanes #11 (Fall 1953); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Контексте: Beauty in this Iron Age must turn
From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn
And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn
On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn
Who hopes to wake the Future to arise
In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays
To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes
Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...

"Black Squirrel on Cottonwood Limb's Tip" in Skyhook #23 (Winter 1954-55); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Контексте: We too. No wisdom to utter.
You've beauty, flux, and terror
To tell. So've I. And they're
Very hard to mutter
Through so much chatter and stutter.

"The Pterodactyl" in Sky Hook #16, (Winter 1952-53); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Контексте: Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless
Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive
Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact
Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press
Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive
From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.

Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)
Контексте: Eyes forward! Sing a paean to the light
That God gives us to net the distant stars
In eyes that once were blinded with black earth.
Man had no time for aught but toll, no space
For aught but war. Yet God, in His great love,
Has cleared our eyes and given a hint of Power.

Section 14 : "Three-Cornered Play : Caroll to Alice to Computer"
The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Контексте: How strange and unforeseeable! The world had been saved, not by great rulers and statesmen, not by mystics and saints and prophets and messiahs, not by any of the holy scriptures, but by an introverted eccentric writer of mathematical texts and children's books and by the child who'd inspired him.
The little girl become a woman, dream-ridden Alice, had inspired the nonsense not really nonsense, and this in circuitous and spiralling fashion had inspired her to do what all others had failed to do, to save eighteen billion souls and the world.

"Job's Leviathan" in JD Argassy #58 (1961); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)

"Black Squirrel on Cottonwood Limb's Tip" in Skyhook #23 (Winter 1954-55); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Контексте: Oh, I'd reach beyond the comma of you
To the invisible phrase, the dangling Omega! No use. No act
Of mine or mind denies the ante-cerebellum fact
Of furry you, poised fleetingly, bright flex,
Black reflex, too leaping for me to ink and fix
As period to end what has no period, no, no
End...

The Riverworld series, Gods of Riverworld (1983)
Контексте: The truth is that you can be immortal, relatively so, anyway. You won't last beyond the death of the universe and probably not nearly as long as the universe does. But you have the potentiality for living a million years, two, perhaps three or more. As long as you can find a Terrestrial-type planet with a hot core and have resurrection machinery available.
Unfortunately, not all can be permitted to possess immortality. Too many would make immortality miserable or hellish for the rest, and they would try to control others through their control of the resurrection machinery. Even so, everybody, without exception, is given a hundred years after his Earthly death to prove that he or she can live peacefully and in harmony with himself and the others, within the tolerable limits of human imperfections. Those who can do this will be immortal after the two projects are completed.

Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)
Контексте: Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth.
We hope to breed a race of men whose power
Dwells in hearts as open as all Space
Itself, who ask for nothing but the light
That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars
Above will be below when man has Love.

That is the old Egyptian word for one of the several souls in their religion. Except for the Egyptians this will have no special connotation. And they can adapt to it.
Источник: The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Ch. 20

Источник: The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Ch. 19
Контексте: According to Burton, the Ethical who talked to him did not agree with his fellows. Apparently, there was dissension even among those beings who we could account as gods. Dispute or discord in Olympus, if I may draw such a parallel. Though I do not think that the so-called Ethicals are gods, angels, or demons. They are human beings like us but advanced to a higher ethical plane. What their disagreement is, I frankly do not know. Perhaps it is about the means used to achieve a goal.

Источник: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (pp. 3-4)
Контексте: It was like no hell or heaven of which he had ever heard or read, and he had thought that he was acquainted with every theory of the afterlife.
He had died. Now he was alive. He had scoffed all his life at a life-after-death. For once, he could not deny that he had been wrong. But there was no one present to say, "I told you so, you damned infidel!"
Of all the millions, he alone was awake.

Источник: The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Ch. 19
Контексте: The visitor said that his kind called themselves the Ethicals, though they had other names for themselves. They were on a higher plane of ethical development than most Earthlings. Notice that he said most. This indicates that there have been some of us who have achieved the same level as the Ethicals.

Venus on the Half-Shell (December 1974); written using the pseudonym Kilgore Trout, with the permission of Kurt Vonnegut.

"Imagination" in America Sings (1949); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)

Of Chib
Riders of the Purple Wage (1967)

"In Common" in Starlanes #14 (April 1954); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)

Message of "The Visitor" Ch. 19
The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980)

Источник: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 4)

Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)

First lines.
The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980)

Источник: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (pp. 5-6)