D.G. Compton > Quotes

“Monkeys seldom sit. Likewise, only even less so, bare-assed Homo sapiens, man in the Garden, man before the Fall. His rump isn't that tough. So it might be said that the ease with which today we park our bald and flaccid bums at the slightest excuse represents the finest flower of our civilization. Be that as it may, at that time whenever I sat and became aware that I sat I felt squalid. I felt lax, despicably passive, as if my ass were some gigantic parasitic sucker clapped onto the rest of creation.”
― D.G. Compton, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

“I have a theory about computers. You see, they don't have self-knowledge. On a fundamental level there's no feedback. Otherwise, it'd be like an audio system. If a microphone hears what it transmits, it transmits what it hears. Louder and louder till something breaks.”
― D.G. Compton, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

“There are times when self-disgust is a luxury, when you can scrooge around in it and feel delightfully unclean. There are other times when self-disgust is simply a destroyer. And there are yet other times, I know now, when self-disgust is a challenge.”
― D.G. Compton, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

“What's wrong with the new city?" she said.

"What's wrong with it is that you don't see there's anything wrong with it. You starve to death in it. You rot. You are battered out of existence. And you say it's very nice. Indeed, you will beggar yourself to come and live in it.”
― D.G. Compton, The Silent Multitude