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“My opponents' first argument was that the rocks of the earth--which are generally agreed to have once been in a hot and melted state--would have required far longer to lose their heat than the Scriptures described. My reply was that the earth had indeed cooled at great speed, being made possible by a process I termed Divine Refrigeration.”
Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
“I began my ministry with some zeal, endeavouring to improve the lives of my flock by launching a little campaign to have the alehouse open only three days in the week instead of seven, and offering--as a nobler recompense--two extra church services. Sadly this little initiative was answered, in certain quarters, with something like hostility.”
Matthew Kneale
tags: humor
“All at once I felt myself haunted by a terrible vision, of a world without guidance: a land of emptiness, where all was ruled by the madness of chance. How could one endure such a place, where all significance was lost? I myself would mean nothing, but would merely be a kind of self-invention: a speck upon the wind, calling itself Wilson. I felt my spirit waver, as if it were toppling into the abyss before me.”
Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
“you never knew how things might go on Judgment Day.”
Matthew Kneale, Pilgrims: Matthew Kneale
“If I have learned anything from my summer of discoveries, it is that the more accepted and widespread a notion, the more fiercely it should be suspected. Beliefs have a dangerous habit of creating their own momentum, the momentum of mere fashion, until any who oppose them become the subject of humorous derision, revilement or worse. A truth that holds as well for small clans as for great nations. Readers, guard yourselves, I urge you, against that toxic slumber of unanimity. Seek instead that most dazzling of prizes, to see through the delusions of your own time.”
Matthew Kneale, Sweet Thames

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