The Attempted Rescue Quotes

“In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.”
― Robert Aickman, The Attempted Rescue

“Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.”
― Robert Aickman, The Attempted Rescue