Frases de John Brunner

John Kilian Houston Brunner foi um prolífico autor britânico de ficção científica.

✵ 24. Setembro 1934 – 25. Agosto 1995
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John Brunner: Frases em inglês

“If you want to know what's shortly due for the guillotine look for the most obvious of all symptoms: extremism.”

John Brunner livro Stand on Zanzibar

context (12) "The Sociological Counterpart of Cheyne-Stokes Respiration" <!-- [Italics in source] -->
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Contexto: If you want to know what's shortly due for the guillotine look for the most obvious of all symptoms: extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

“When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.”

John Brunner livro Stand on Zanzibar

context (16) "Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere: Calypso (stanzas 2, 5, and 7) <!-- [Italics in source] -->
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Contexto: Watching their sets in a kind of trance
were people in Mexico, people in France.
They don't chase Jones but the dreams are the same —
Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that's the right name!
Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout,
A gadget on the set makes them look like you. When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.
It may be a rumor or it may be true
But a gadget on the set has it said by you! "What do you think about Yatakang?"
"I think the same as the Everywhere gang."
"What do you think of Beninia then?"
"The Everywheres will tell me but I don't know when."
Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.

“Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.”

John Brunner livro Stand on Zanzibar

context (16) "Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere: Calypso (stanzas 2, 5, and 7) <!-- [Italics in source] -->
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Contexto: Watching their sets in a kind of trance
were people in Mexico, people in France.
They don't chase Jones but the dreams are the same —
Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that's the right name!
Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout,
A gadget on the set makes them look like you. When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.
It may be a rumor or it may be true
But a gadget on the set has it said by you! "What do you think about Yatakang?"
"I think the same as the Everywhere gang."
"What do you think of Beninia then?"
"The Everywheres will tell me but I don't know when."
Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.

“First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then …? Then you serve machines.”

John Brunner livro Stand on Zanzibar

continuity (14) "The Right Man For The Job"
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

“It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.”

John Brunner livro Stand on Zanzibar

Fonte: Stand on Zanzibar

“I'm myself, not a label.”

John Brunner The Shockwave Rider

Fonte: The Shockwave Rider

“Never marry a good church-going girl, Billy! They can always find moral justifications for anything they feel like doing, no matter how it hurts other people.”

John Brunner livro The Stone That Never Came Down

Fonte: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 5 (p. 44)

“He was wondering what society would have been like if we’d socialised cannabis instead of dangerous drugs like alcohol and religion.”

John Brunner livro The Stone That Never Came Down

Fonte: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 3 (p. 26)

“If there is a hell, perhaps it consists in living up to all one’s promises.”

John Brunner livro The Tides of Time

Fonte: The Tides of Time (1984), Chapter 11 (p. 202)

“You have many years to live—do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.”

John Brunner livro Stand on Zanzibar

continuity (27) "Manscape"
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

“At night, when he lay down to sleep, he felt that his brain was resonating with the heartbeat of the planet.”

John Brunner livro The Sheep Look Up

January “EARTHMOVER”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)