Seikaiha

“a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell.”
― Michael Moorcock, Elric: Swords and Roses

“To me, it is entirely clear that the relation between the rhythmics of verse and prose is the same as that between arithmetic and integral calculus. In arithmetic we sum up individual items; in integral calculus we deal with sums, series. The prose foot is measured, not by the distance between stressed syllables, but by the distance between (logically) stressed words . And in prose, just as in integral calculus, we deal not with constant quantities (as in verse and arithmetic) but with variable ones. In prose, the foot is always a variable quantity, it is always being either slowed or accelerated. This, of course, is not fortuitous: it is determined by the emotional and semantic accelerations and retardations in the text.22”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid.”
― Michael Moorcock, Elric In the Dream Realms

“The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. . . . But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We