Fundamental Disch Quotes

“From this it can be proved that the Arcadian mathematics, so primitive in other respects, is based upon a shrewd understanding of the physical properties of soap bubbles. ("Et in Arcadia Ego")”
― Thomas M. Disch, Fundamental Disch

“... the difficulty was in training the eye to see the whole world of usual forms -- patterns of brick, painted plaster, carved and carpentered wood -- not as "buildings" and "streets" but as an infinite series of free and arbitrary choices. There was no place in such a scheme for orders, styles, sophistication, taste. ("The Asian Shore")”
― Thomas M. Disch, Fundamental Disch