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Gods and Thunders!
There are new monsters now.
The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.]
heights th' immortal Gods, Jove
gamos, meaning a marriage or conjoining of hunter and prey.
They that have voice of lions and act of hares,
are they not monsters?
I mistrust mountebanks - especially of the female variety.
Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can.
a cloud of black-and-orange butterflies for the Mullendores.
Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)
They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?
Beasts abstract not.
Even monsters need to rest between monstrosities.
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Goats and monkies!
Ex Scientia, Tridens
(From knowledge, seapower)
Here be dragons.
I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Midian is where the monsters go.
Kings of the land and the sky we are; proud gryphons. Stalker stands, the epitome of pride. Naked and muscular, his wings widen and his feet dig in as if he alone holds down the earth and supports the heavens, keeping the two ever separate.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as the domes of vast cathedrals. We are giants, lying here, who can make forests quiver.
SCORPIUS: Always.
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]
Somewhere in the shape sighs take.
Mother's tits, Rhys,
For they were the stuff of nightmares; maggoty abominations possessed of incalculable and vile intellect that donned flesh and spines of men and beasts to shield themselves from the sun and enable themselves to walk upright instead of merely slithering.
Each moss,
Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost
Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
Which Nature's self would rue.
What are those?" Nico called.
The world is chock-full of monsters.
Brutal abnormalities - Hellish, grotesque monstrosities Who made us fall, one and all. They beat us black and blue - And too Their Fathers showed us things, Inhuman things - Forbidden things!
A giant capable of circumcising redwoods with his teeth ...
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.
MACHOs (for MAssive Compact Halo Objects - really just another name for black holes, brown dwarfs and other very dim stars).
To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
Monsters are made
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
Stuffed creatures, come to life and attack werewolves.
The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
I have seen landscapes ... which, under a particular light, made me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge. Nature has that in her which compels us to invent giants: and only giants will do.
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.
[Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
Torpid systems - it was pleasant to hear them
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
Why are you so interested in amoebas?"
"Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a
person is getting too complicated.
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Mars red gladiolus
Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
The heads of twenty or thirty giants standing in a circle, mumbling and swaying, maybe doing the evil monster version of Kumbayah.
When lizard-footed giants climbed the hills And with a hundred hands clawed at the sky.
Aristotle's scala naturae, which runs from God, the angels, and humans at the top, downward to other mammals, birds, fish, insects, and mollusks at the bottom.
the countless unnamed jewels of Mars,
Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
petraries and mangonels. Then, at vesper time,
For the purpose of securing epithets at once accurate and felicitous, the young author should familiarize himself thoroughly with the general aspect and phenomena of Nature, as well as with the ideas and associations which these things produce in the human mind.
What in the name of Zeus's testicles?
ZEUS SUX and TYPHOEUS WUZ HERE.
New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.
Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
Ancient charmers with skeleton throats and peachy cheeks that have a rather ghastly bloom upon them seen by daylight, when indeed these fascinating creatures look like Death and the Lady fused together, dazzle the eyes of men. Forth
Leunagasolin, such as, oh, the Moss Creature here, brightest
I lived for a long time under vast porticos
That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires,
And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous
In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.
I wondered stony afternoons owning all their vastness.
Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.
They soared past the dark shapes of animals, grazing in the fields.
"What are they?" she asked.
"Sheep," Mason replied. "I once heard someone describe them as floating like clouds across the hills.
Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm.
[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals ...
What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
[Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
Baboons, I observed. One with a big gun and the other with a big mouth, and both with alpha-sized, flaming pink asses.
things riding mules
The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden.
"The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My
people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't
much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks
off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.
Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems ... "
"Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.
A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII.
Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end."
"You haven't killed me yet," I noted.
"Don't tempt me.
I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
Blissful Islands
Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.
Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.
Thus a man looking through a tremendous telescope does not see the cirri of an Indian summer above his charmed orchard, but does see, as my regretted colleague, the late Professor Alexander Ivanchenko, twice saw, the swarming of hesperozoa in a humid valley of the planet Venus.
Each of us have monsters that live in our depths. Like all mythological sea monsters, they are too big and too powerful to be caged. The mysteries we attempt to cage are the ones most likely to eat us. We
Who is the monster now?
Daimons, vampires, ghouls, whatever you want to call them. They suck your blood and your soul and leave you with nothing. Kind of like lawyers. (Selena)
Little creatures they were who seemed to have been blown from glass.
Someone had to fight the monsters. Who better than a monster?
The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.
A miniature model of the solar system, contained within a glass dome. It was a beautiful thing; each of the moons glimmered in place around the nine planets and the fiery sun,
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.
[Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
AOE/Axsys The magic machine.
The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings
When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.
[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
In the soil too fat and happy, the praying mantises too pious and too plentiful,
What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?