Sunday, January 24, 2010

Physics & Metaphysics

Subject:  Smell
Quote:  “Smell goes up, not down.  You’d notice a decaying body in the cellar much sooner than in the attic.”
Character:  Hermione “Egg” Lytton Gore 
Chapter/Story:  12
Book Title/Copyright:  Murder in Three Acts, 1934 


Subject:  Mind-Body
Quote:  There are times when a body is conscious of a mind controlling it—when it bows obedient to that alien something that controls its actions.  There are other times when a mind is conscious of owning and controlling a body and accomplishing its purpose by using that body.
Character:  Omniscient narrator
Chapter/Story:  “Open the Door and Here Are the People”
Book Title/Copyright:  Towards Zero, 1944