Demiurge Quotes

“Even the littlest minds, sunk in petty pride of self, are susceptible to chords struck on the cosmic scale.”
― Michael Shea, Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea

“The bright languid people on the corners threw laughter at them now, a shout or two, and it seemed as if the whole great submarine python stirred to quicker currents. Ricky felt a ripple of hallucination and saw here, for just a moment, a vast inked mural, the ink not dry, themselves and all around them still half-liquid entities billowing in an aqueous universe …”
― Michael Shea, Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea

“The signals stretched out of sight ahead, like a python with scales of red and green, their radiance haloed in a light fog that was drifting in off the Bay. And people were out, little knots of them near the corners. They formed isolated clots of gaudy life, like tidepools, all of them dressed in baggy clothes of bright-colored nylon, paneled and logo-ed with surreal pastels under the emerald-and-ruby signal glare. And as they stood and talked together, they moved in a way both fitful and languid, like sealife bannering in a restless sea.”
― Michael Shea, Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea