By: Aldous Huxley

“A million million spermatozoa…”

By: Blaise Cendrars

“The Zeppelins that came to bomb Paris always came from Orion”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“Clicketing of bits of disjointed metal / Working in motion.”

By: Robert Frost

“For destruction ice / Is also great…”

By: Carl Sandburg

“Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears.”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“Your weird bright motor-productive mechanism…”

By: F.V. Branford

“Where square and circle coincide,/And the parallels collide”

By: Frederik Pohl

“A dead world, and cold, this satellite bleak…”

By: Laurence Binyon

“Dædal Numbers, sole and same,/Invisible skeleton frame”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“The heart of man, in so far as it is budding, is budding warless…”

By: Michael Roberts

“I, maybe, precisely seize /
The elusive photon’s properties”

By: Stephen Vincent Benét

“That was the year the termites came to New York.”

By: C.S. Lewis

“Refrain? From what? All’s good enough.”

By: Max Beerbohm

“I never said they were ‘automata’
And ‘jackaclocks’…”

By: Archibald MacLeish

LIFE in the Perpendicular Decanter