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TINY COLOURS OF A NEW WORLD, GREY CLOUDS, JUST A MOMENT BEFORE A NEW LIFE / RADIOACTIVITY

 
 
   

VANISHING SQUIRREL IN A VANISHING WORLD / FROM OUR EYES / VANISHING IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT WHICH IS NOT A NIGHT / IN THE DARK OF WHAT WE CAN'T SEE 16.06.2022

 
     

A SO FAINT MATTER STRONGLY GLUED WITH A KIND OF NOTHING 11.06.2022

«PEOPLE [...] PEERED INTO THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE THE CARRIAGE WINDOWS AND SAW ONLY A RARE, FLICKERING, VANISHING SPARK DANCE UP [...], A RED GLOW AND A THIN VEIL OF SMOKE DRIVING ACROSS THE STARS, AND THOUGHT THAT NOTHING MORE SERIOUS THAN A HEATH FIRE WAS HAPPENING.»

—H.G. WELLS, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
    INTO THE BLACK ATOMS OF THE NIGHT / WITH A FAINT MATTER UNDER YOUR FEET / THE SAME MATTER OF YOUR SKIN AND BONES / SAME SILENCE AND ITS OPPOSITE . FOX 10.06.2022

«OUT OF TIME, OUT OF SPACE, OUT OF THE STRESS AND TRAGEDY OF IT ALL.»

—H.G. WELLS, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
     

LIKE A SQUIRREL, FOR EXAMPLE— 14.06.2022

«LIVING IS NO LAUGHING MATTER: / YOU MUST LIVE WITH GREAT SERIOUSNESS / LIKE A SQUIRREL, FOR EXAMPLE—»

—NAZIM HIKMET, ON LIVING
   
   
 

«[...] LIKE THE ASTRONAUT IN WEIGHTLESS SPACE, TURNS HELPLESSLY, WITH NOTHING TO GRAB HOLD OF.»

  —STANISŁAW LEM, HIGHCASTLE
      WRECKAGE 2021 / A KIND OF NIGHT

«THE EARTH AND THE GRASS GAVE OFF A SMELL OF RUST, RADIOACTIVE POOLS HAD ACCUMULATED AT THE BOTTOMS OF THE GULLIES, THE BIRDS DIDN'T SING BUT HOARSELY LAMENTED, AS IF BEWAILING THEIR DEATH AGONY, THERE WEREN'T ANY ANIMALS, AND THERE WASN'T EVEN ANY SYLVAN REPOSE - ON THEIR RIGHT AND ON THEIR LEFT EXPLOSIONS ERUPTED AND RUMBLED, GRAYISH-BLUE FUMES SWIRLED AND EDDIED AMONG THE BRANCHES, AND GUSTS OF WIND BROUGHT THE HARSH ROARING OF EXHAUSTED ENGINES...»

 
—ARKADY AND BORIS STRUGATSKY, THE INHABITED ISLAND    
      WRECKAGE 2021 / TINY COLOURS OF A NEW WORLD / DETAIL
       
 

«HE COULDN'T TAKE A SINGLE STEP THERE WITHOUT RUNNING INTO IRON: DEAD, RUSTED-THROUGH IRON; IRON THAT WAS JUST LYING IN WAIT, READY TO KILL AT ANY MOMENT; IRON THAT WAS FURTIVELY STIRRING, TAKING AIM; IRON THAT WAS MOVING, BLINDLY.»

  —ARKADY AND BORIS STRUGATSKY, THE INHABITED ISLAND
WRECKAGE 2021 / TINY COLOURS OF A NEW WORLD  
      WRECKAGE 2021 / HARE / GREY NIGHT / NEW DAWN

«[...] AND EVEN THEN, IN THOSE TOYS THAT DELIGHTED THE EYE, THERE WAS SOMETHING PORTENTOUS, OMINOUS,THOUGH THE REDUCTION OF SCALE PRETENDED INNOCENCE. THE PRETTY TANKS HAD A SLIGHT REPUGNANCE ABOUT THEM, AS IF THEY WERE NOT ONLY AND SIMPLY THEMSELVES, AS IF SOMETHING WOULD BE HATCHING OR GROWING FROM THEM.»

 
—STANISŁAW LEM, HIGHCASTLE  

«IT WAS NOT FEAR THAT BLINDED ME, BUT THE ABSOLUTE. THE ABSOLUTE WAS THERE; I COULD FEEL IT.»

   
       
 

«AND SO IT WENT ON, DAY AND NIGHT, NIGHT AND DAY. IN THE DAYTIME THEY WENT OUT INTO THE FOREST, WHICH WASN'T A FOREST BUT AN OLD FORTIFIED AREA. IT WAS LITERALLY CRAWLING WITH AUTOMATED COMBAT DEVICES - SELF-PROPELLED GUNS, ROCKETS ON CATERPILLAR TRACKS, FLAMETHROWERS, AND GAS PROJECTORS - ALL OF WHICH STILL HADN'T DIED YET AFTER MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS. IT WAS STILL LIVING ITS OWN UNNECESSARY MECHANICAL LIFE, STILL TAKING AIM, VECTORING IN, AND BELCHING FORTH LEAD, FIRE, AND DEATH, AND ALL OF IT HAD TO BE STRANGLED, BLOWN UP, AND KILLED IN ORDER TO CLEAR A CORRIDOR FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF MORE RADIATION TOWERS.»

  —ARKADY AND BORIS STRUGATSKY, THE INHABITED ISLAND
      WRECKAGE 2021 / JUST A MOMENT BEFORE A NEW LIFE / DETAIL
WRECKAGE 2021 / HARE / GREY CLOUD      
      WRECKAGE 2021 / JUST A MOMENT BEFORE A NEW LIFE
    WRECKAGE 2021 / NEW LIFE
 
       
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