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"Our voyager was familiar with the laws of gravity. He utilized them so well that, with the help of a ray of sunlight or some comet, he jumped from globe to globe like a bird vaulting from branch to branch, [and] spanned the Milky Way."
- Voltaire, "Micromegas"

"The governor and his family are served by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. By his skill in necromancy, he could call whom he pleases from the dead.... [The servants' countenances] made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express."
- Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"

"There is glory in each day, for each of us. It is waiting to be illuminated and observed. ,,, Art has the power to alter our interior selves, and in so doing to inspire, exhilarate, provoke, connect, and rouse us. As we are changed, our souls are awakened to possibility — immeasurable, yes, and potentially infinite. If ever there was a time for art, it’s now."

--Claire Messud

@bookstodon #art #poetry #literature

In the novel, Captain Hook is a dark mirror of Peter Pan, as he never really grew up either. He went to Eton as a teenager, and is still obsessed with that school's values. Hook becomes almost suicidally depressed when he believes Eton would say he has "bad form."