Monday 30 August 2010

"a mass of glutinous coiling worms"

From the novel Solaris by Stanislaw Lem:
"Our white, naked bodies dissolve into a swarm of black creeping things, and I am - we are - a mass of glutinous coiling worms, endless, and in that infinity, no, I am infinite, and I howl soundlessly, begging for death and for an end." Page 188
Yep...pretty much describes me first thing in the morning. And mid-afternoon. And on Christmas Day.

[The passage describes part of a dream experienced by the novel's main character, Kris Kelvin, while he is in a space station orbiting the mysterious 'ocean' planet, Solaris.]

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