"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