Status Updates From The Island of Doctor Moreau

Audiobook

I love how HG Wells wrote in the late 1800s yet his writing is so modern and easy to understand. I’m obsessed with this story!

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SO is this a critique of religion?

Why are the hands such an issue? Why hands specifically? It rings true for AI too.

“But whether he treated it well or ill, it loved nothing so much as to be near him.”

So I'm seeing that the beast folk Laws are an attempt to be something they are not because the culture they were made in says their nature is less than. Hmm.

I see why this is written, but I am not enjoying the telling. I am losing interest.

This book is tea. Prendick is kind of dumb tho, tf do you mean “what could it mean”

have to re-acquaint myself with the reference material before i get too deep into the fanfic

this fuckass island is bad news man

“…there is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it; but always I fall short of the things I dream.”

“But I can see through it all, see into their very souls, and see there nothing but the souls of beasts… there is a kind of upward striving in them… It only mocks me.”

harl, if you’re reading this i’m formally requesting a 30% reduction in the level of annoying you’ve been k thanks

Me gustó esa mezcla de monstruos, en especial el mix Zorra-Osa que olía nauseabunda

Se puso rara la cosa

Y qué onda la descripción de aquellos misteriosos alaridos y gritos feroces

Okay I fucking love this

Ye olde language and I can’t tell how racist it’s gonna be, just that it feels like it

Holy aura

Ch 14

queria muito saber se esse livro serviu de inspiração pra criação do moreau em re village

“They say that terror is a disease, and anyhow, I can witness that, for several years now, a restless fear has dwelt in my mind.”

“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”

"I suppose everything in existence takes its color from the average hue of our surroundings."

“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”

“Pain and pleasure- they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust…”

“So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick, so long as your own pain drives you, so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin, so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely what an animal feels.”

"Very much, indeed, of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion."

Unironically the best page in the book

“Looking more like a flayed child” 😀 awful