Loki

“In any case, the expression ‘real life’ in this context seems to fall short of academic standards. The notion that motor-cars are more ‘alive’ than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more ‘real’ than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!

For my part, I cannot convince myself that the roof of Bletchley station is more ‘real’ than the clouds. And as an artefact I find it less inspiring than the legendary dome of heaven. The bridge to platform 4 is to me less interesting than Bifröst guarded by Heimdall with the Gjallarhorn. From the wildness of my heart I cannot exclude the question whether railway-engineers, if they had been brought up on more fantasy, might not have done better with all their abundant means than they commonly do.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

“Et land uten kultur har ikke livets rett som land. Det eneste unntaket her er Belgia.”
― Knut Nærum, Norsk litteraturhistorie fritt etter hukommelsen

“For he who seizes a tyranny and does not kill Brutus, and he who sets a state free and does not kill Brutus' sons, maintains himself but a little while.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses

“Bokens personer, i den rekkefølge de opptrer:
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Liket ......... Ja, det opptrer jo ikke, det bare ligger der. Side 55”
― Hans Faye-Lund