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They seemed to hang from a vast height, as in Rembrandt’s “Adoration of the Shepherds,” and if here they were looped back to show, not the holy family but one grotesque old man, yet adoring wonder was not absent, for Isaac had never grown
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“He did not consciously tell himself that it was his eternity but he had a confused idea that the dark would not entirely get him while the pulse beat on in this clock.”
― The Dean's Watch
― The Dean's Watch
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“Like all creators, he knew well that strange feeling of movement within the spirit, comparable only to the first movement of the child within the womb, which causes the victim to say perhaps with excitement, perhaps with exasperation or exhaustion, “There is a new poem, a new picture, a new symphony coming, heaven help me.” The movement had been unusually strong when he first knew about this clock.”
― The Dean's Watch
― The Dean's Watch
“Isaac’s humility did not discriminate between man and man and scarcely between man and watch. In his thought men were much like their watches. The passage of time was marked as clearly upon a man’s face as upon that of his watch and the marvelous mechanism of his body could be as cruelly disturbed by evil hazards. The outer case varied, gunmetal or gold, carter’s corduroy or bishop’s broadcloth, but the tick of the pulse was the same, the beating of life that gave such a heartbreaking illusion of eternity.”
― The Dean's Watch
― The Dean's Watch
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