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actually he’s not properly a he and he’s nothing you could picture in your
mind. what we’re talking about here is a space-time singularity which is
in fact a neuron of the cosmic mind to which the universe has occurred.
similarly the great snyukh is a simplification of a cusp of negative
probability. once inverted it reverses its polarity and becomes an
accelerator of event.
from
The Medusa Frequency
Picador, London (1987), page 132
She
spoke of Amerikanischer Imperialismus enchantingly and
unmaliciously, and she finished each news item with a rising inflection in
which one could hear her tidy small pleasure. Her voice made in the
crackling and whispering of the evening airwaves a quiet place of its own.
Knowing hardly any German I was able to let go of all comprehension so
that she came to my ear naked, giving me, unvitiated by any surface
meaning, the sound that signified only herself. Whenever she paused for
breath I was shocked by the intimacy of it. It was just such a voice as
the Vermeer girl might have spoken with.
from
The Medusa Frequency
Picador, London (1987), page 78
Extracted from Mr Hoban’s sixth novel and dropped on
the 4th February 2008 in celebration of his eighty-third
birthday.
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