Eric

“The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“Everything is octopusied.”
― Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

“The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.”
― Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978