Katarina

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Katarina.


The Conquest of B...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Stephen  King
“You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die?

Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.”
Stephen King, The Gunslinger

year in books
Derek M...
2,626 books | 172 friends

Tea
Tea
268 books | 59 friends

Bambinja
310 books | 70 friends

Ursurus...
136 books | 28 friends

Toni Ju...
455 books | 243 friends

Hawzhin
496 books | 226 friends

Marut K...
63 books | 7 friends

Ettore ...
19 books | 47 friends

More friends…
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Best Books Ever
76,582 books — 284,852 voters




Polls voted on by Katarina

Lists liked by Katarina