By: Charlotte Haldane

‘I don’t want her to mate; at any rate, not yet.’

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

His eyes were disconcertingly furtive.

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“A race clear-sighted, eminently practical, incredible…”

By: Charlotte Haldane

“We naturally wish to breed from the best available material.”

By: Raymond Roussel

“A device that moved back and forth constantly, he decide, ought to produce… a mosaic.”

By: Raymond Roussel

“As we neared the demoiselle, we could hear the ticking sounds it was emitting.”

By: Charlotte Haldane

‘The whole scheme, practically, is feminine.’

By: Charlotte Haldane

‘The only thing that matters is the Why, not the How.’

By: Raymond Roussel

“Spread out, over a fairly large area, were human teeth.”

By: Charlotte Haldane

Years spent in struggling with apparently incurable stupidity.

By: E. and H. Heron

“The deaths have all occurred within reach of the tendrils of this plant.”

By: E. and H. Heron

“In that instant the thing closed with him…”

By: Charlotte Haldane

“You are looking for the Absolute.”

By: E. and H. Heron

“A pallid head seemed to wag at him from the gloom below the cedar…”

By: Charlotte Haldane

All his criticism, hitherto, had been destructive.