Frases de Norman Spinrad

Norman Richard Spinrad é um escritor estadunidense de ficção científica.

✵ 15. Setembro 1940
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“At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.”

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 16 (p. 208)

““Genius such as yours is a genetic gift.”
“So I have heard from my parents.””

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 7 (p. 83)

“The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.”

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 9 (p. 104)

“Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?”

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 13 (p. 164)

“Flaming torches arching from hand to hand, the silken rolling of flesh on flesh, tautened wire vibrating to the human word, ideogrammatic gestures of fear, love, and rage, the mathematical grace of bodies moving through space—all seemed revealed as shadows on the void, the pauvre panoply of man’s attempt to transcend the universe of space and time through the transmaterial purity of abstract form.
Yet beyond this noble dance of human art, the highest expression of our spirit’s striving to transcend the realm of time and form, lay that which could not be encompassed by the artifice of man. From nothing are we born, to nothing do we go; the universe we know is but the void looped back upon itself, and form is but illusion’s final veil.
We touch that which lies beyond only in those fleeting rare moments when the reality of form dissolves—through molecule and charge, the perfection of the meditative trance, orgasmic ego-loss, transcendent peaks of art, mayhap the instant of our death.
Vraiment, is not the history of man from pigments smeared on the walls of caves to our present starflung age, our sciences and arts, our religions and our philosophies, our cultures and our noble dreams, our heroics and our darkest deeds, but the dance of spirit round this central void, the striving to transcend, and the deadly fear of same?”

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 10 (p. 117)

“What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?”

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 14 (p. 189)

“I could not deny that my spirit was amorally attracted to this ultimate temptation as my conscience was morally repelled by it.”

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 13 (p. 159)

“Does something truly speak to me from beyond the void, or is it merely my own desire?”

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 10 (p. 123)

“Even now, I cannot decide whether I was foolish dupe or noble and tragic lover. Or whether the two are one and the same.”

Norman Spinrad livro The Void Captain's Tale

Fonte: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 7 (p. 82)