Status Updates From Out of the Silent Planet

“It would be a strange but not an inconceivable world; heroism and poetry at the bottom, cold scientific intellect above it, and overtopping all some dark superstition which scientific intellect, helpless against the revenge of the emotional depths it had ignored, had neither will nor power to remove” (86).

“A pleasure is fully grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking…as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another…What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.” -Pg 74

“…how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back…” -Pg 75

Alien wisdom from Malacandra.

I love this bookkkkk 🤩 so so well written < 3

Rereading after many years.