Andrej Bjelakovic

“Seth was giving the chauffeur his instructions, and
in this pause just before their adventure really began,
Flora gazed up searchingly at the windows of the farm-
house. ***They were dead as the eyes of fishes,
reflecting the dim, pallid blue of the fading west. The
crenellated line of the roof thrust blind ledges against
a sky into which the infusion of the darkness was
already beginning to seep. The livid silver tongues
of the early stars leaped between the shapes of the
chinmey-pots, backwards and forwards, like idiot
children dancing to a forgotten tune.”
― Stella Gibbons

“Za štrikliranje pasoša sam k znanju primio. Ne tiče me se. Dok je Aleksandar, u Srbiju neću dolaziti. U veću me brigu baca što zabranjuju skupove. A kod nas, gde nema gužve, nema ni smutnje. Srbi nisu, kao Romeji, pogodni za dogovore, sozokletija, tajna društva. Srpska Heterija je nemoguća. Oni su više za naprečac dizanje i svršavanje stvari usput. U smislu toga da krenu na litiju, a završe paljevinom Dvora. U toj osebini valja i tražiti lek belaju sa zakonom protiv zborovanja i dogovaranja. Da l’ se opominješ propalog projekta da dignemo bunu pod vidom sakupljanja potpisa za povratak iz internacije onih propalica, Vučića i Petronijevića?”
― Borislav Pekić, Zlatno runo 4

“Children are - and this seems to be a cultural if not a biological necessity - terrorised by the adult experience of life, which, glimpsing it obliquely, at times of stress, and in fragments which makes no sense, they try to ignore. Many fantasy and sf readers are living out a prolonged childhood in which they retain that terror and erect- in collusion with professional writers who themselves often began as teenage daydreamers - powerful defences against it.

Thus they prefer fiction which, like "hard" sf, ignores adult experience or ropes it off in a reductivist way; or which, like fantasy and horror fiction, diffuses and defuses it through fairytale and myth; or - perhaps most characteristically since the New Wave, "inner space" and the soft sciences- which generalises and
politicises it. (Post New Wave readers, especially those who consider themselves most adult and intelligent in their use of the genre, seem not to fear experience so much as individual experience. They are not frightened of life so much as life's particularity. The trap is circular. The less you engage your own adult experience, the less you value it, and the more you tend to rely on
systematic ideological validations of it. This is no better than the school playground, with its establishmentally validated experiences and sociative norms, you believe you have left behind.)”
― M. John Harrison

“But scholars (rightly in principle, if often dreadfully wrongly in practice) abhor vacuums as much as nature does, and sometimes do naughty things to fill
them.”
― Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change