We belong to an age where ...

We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.
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 Brian Aldiss

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It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.
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 Brian Aldiss
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.
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If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
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 Brian Aldiss
Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down.
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 Brian Aldiss
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!
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 Brian Aldiss