Jonathon Postlethwaite and the Seed of Corruption Quotes

“He wanted and had sworn to usurp the power they possessed. He perceived that they held the ultimate power in the city, that of life or death for all. With one flick of some innocuous switch, or so he paradoxically presumed despite his own technical knowledge, they could collapse the Field Walls and destroy it all. In reality it required technically more than the flick of a switch and practically such an act was impossible for the Tallmen to exercise this absolute power as Silus Flax saw it.”
― David S Denny, Jonathon Postlethwaite and the Seed of Corruption

“trooped eagerly into the undulating orifice never to be seen again.”
― David S Denny, Jonathon Postlethwaite and the Seed of Corruption

“a thousand huge internal combustion engines were coupled together in lines of one thousand”
― David S Denny, Jonathon Postlethwaite and the Seed of Corruption

“the Towers of the Tallmen thrust their nine mysterious, phallus like towers upwards into the carbon monoxide smog which mantled them.”
― David S Denny, Jonathon Postlethwaite and the Seed of Corruption

“Now it had felt Jonathon, but could not touch him since Jonathon had inherited some of this Granfathers pshycic skills and was able to keep mind closed to  its attack.”
― David S Denny, Jonathon Postlethwaite and the Seed of Corruption