Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of a man in his last years...
Michael MoorcockTo seek pain as a form
of salvation is to destroy oneself.
Tag: von_bek
Unsettled by the sudden appearance of Captain Quire within her court, Gloriana resolved to forego all frivolous entertainments and shun the more unnecessary pleasures. Yet, the queen reasoned, this surely did not apply to healthful exercise, such as riding in the royal park. Nor could she refuse to spend the remainder of the afternoon in quiet seclusion, lying face down upon a cushioned bench in her private dressing room while gentle Lady Mary rubbed all the soreness from her muscles. Such occupations were safe, and harmless. It was only afterwards, when she was sleeping deeply, that Captain Quire came to her in a dream.
Michael MoorcockLeda: 'I would rather become an international adventuress and bring down kings and emperors.'
Maxim: 'But this is the age of republics and democracies. It's much harder to seduce a committee.
I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of people in a late-Roman settlement, amongst them people from Africa and the Near East. 'You mean they had black people back then!' was actually what my boss exclaimed when he read that. 'Could Lancelot's sidekick be black?
Michael MoorcockTag: hollywood
Our Di had, according to her myth, been hounded to death by the baying werewolves of the yellow press. Of course it was now plain I was one. Maybe even the worst of them. Some people claimed they had actually seen me baying. In the tunnel. With the blood of their angel on my hands.
Michael MoorcockTrapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
Michael MoorcockTag: irony self-doubt eternal-champion karl-glogauer
I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse.
Michael MoorcockTag: elric
When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.
Michael MoorcockTag: atheism self-respect responsibility gods
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
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