The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.
Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's been lovely. I mean it. Nobody tries to… - Thomas M. Disch
Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's been lovely. I mean it. Nobody tries to…
- Thomas M. Disch
The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows. - Thomas M. Disch
The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of ba… - Thomas M. Disch
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of ba…
Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than… - Thomas M. Disch
Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than…
Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. - Thomas M. Disch
Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
Sameness is what marketers want us to want. - Thomas M. Disch
Sameness is what marketers want us to want.
Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful - Thomas M. Disch
Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful
Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into i… - Thomas M. Disch
Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into i…
Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist. - Thomas M. Disch
Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.
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