Books/Comics Quotes
- "The smell is appalling and there's nose from beyond the mirror door; a relentless antiphonic clashing and roaring. I imagine agonized women giving birth to dreadful machines. Choirs singing in hell might sound that way. I don't dare consider what its world might be like, the world on the reverse of the mirror. No, I do dare.. I sometimes wonder what would be waiting if I stepped through, like Alice.." ~Sutton's Diary, The Invisibles, Apocalipstick.
- In context or out of context, this is _brilliant_ material, and the inspiration for starting a Quote section to the Media Resources. ~Ataxia
- "After people have the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. Everything." ~ Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
- I was rereading this, and the quote screamed out at me as very Puzzleboxian. Is, indeed, everything done in the Mess part of a pastime, a game, a giant sprawling theater-in-the-round? Even the more ascetic and demanding factions... well, some people prefer structured games with rigid rules to free-form play. And the prevalence of amnesia -- is it merely the setup for an elaborate and immersive riddle-game of Who Am I? Is the game perhaps a game to its inhabitants as much as to their players? Shades of metatextuality... ~ Cascade
Game/Video/Multimedia Quotes
- "I feel the grey goo boiling my blood; As I watch the dead rise up out of the earth; Try to hide from the lies as they all come true.." ~Mr. Bungle - California - 'None Of Them Knew They Were Robots'
- If only it were quicksilver.. But, then, sometimes strange is that biological blackened or greyed mix, and I've seen few people play that up. ~Ataxia