"Tire Devourers want only to amass cash and to raise little ones like themselves to amass more cash and they want to compete with each other at cash-amassing. <…> And the Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes — it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods —and to complain about how the work of amassing cash torture their mind and frustrating their digestions. Beyond this, each of the Devourers also secretly collects and hides away forever, to delight no eyes but his own, all the finest objects and thoughts created by true men and women (and true wizards and true demons) and bought by the Devourers at bankruptcy prices and paid for with trash or this is their ultimate preference—with nothing at all.
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перевод: И. Русецкий, 1994
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“What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science?”
Источник: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 26).
Контексте: What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.
“They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it.”
Источник: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 37).
Контексте: They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it. They haven’t been out here to see for themselves that there isn’t any giant elephant under the earth, holding it up, and a giant tortoise holding up the elephant. If I say “planet” and “spaceship” to them, they still think “horoscope” and “flying saucer”.
“There are vampires and vampires, and the ones that suck blood aren’t the worst.”
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Источник: “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 240)
“The Dreams of Albert Moreland” (p. 182); originally published in The Acolyte, #10, Spring 1945
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
“It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.”
Источник: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3 (p. 26).
Источник: Bazaar of the Bizarre (pp. 233-234) note: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)
“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”
“All of us.”
Источник: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 30 (p. 181)
“I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!”
Источник: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3.
“There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.”
Источник: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 33).
“A Bit of the Dark World” (pp. 261-262); originally published in Fantastic, February 1962
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
“The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.”
Источник: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).
“Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a God, her name is Mystery.”
Источник: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 8 (p. 43)
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 241)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
