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Michael John Moorcock è uno scrittore britannico di fantascienza e di fantasy.

✵ 18. Dicembre 1939   •   Altri nomi مایکل مورکوک, Μάικλ Μούρκοκ
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“In Cambogia, un paese situato tra il Vietnam e la Thailandia sulla cartina, fra lo n e zero sulla carta dei fusi orari, si trova la magica città di Angkor, dove un tempo visse la grande stirpe dei Khmer. Un esploratore francese la rinvenne nella giungla nel XIX secolo. In seguito venne riportata alla luce da alcuni archeologi francesi. La gente semplice che vi abita, discendenti dai Khmer, ha due teorie riguardo la città – che sia stata costruita da una razza di giganti e che la città stessa si sia formata da sé durante la creazione del mondo. Riferendosi ad Angkor sul Times della domenica (10/1/65) Maurice Wiggin scrisse: «I cittadini di Angkor hanno avuto il futuro che desideravano? Non proprio. Eppure sembrarono in grado di adattarsi, convertendosi zelantemente dall'Induismo al Buddismo, costruendo edifici che durassero ('Le rovine più stupefacenti del mondo'). Ma i grandi re Khmer sono ormai polvere.»”

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Jerry Cornelius: Programma finale, Incipit

“In Cambogia, un paese che sulla carta geografica sta tra il Vietnam e la Thailandia, fra lo n e lo zero nel quadro dei tempi, c'è la magica città di Angkor, dove viveva, una volta, la potente razza Khmer.
Nel milleottocento un esploratore francese riscoprì, sepolta nella giungla, la città di Angkor, che fu successivamente riportata alla luce da alcuni archeologi francesi.
Gli abitanti, discendenti dai Khmers, avevano due teorie sull'origine della città: una, che fosse stata costruita dai giganti e l'altra, che la città fosse sorta dal nulla, al tempo della creazione del mondo.
Sull'argomento, Maurice Wiggin, nell'edizione del Sunday Times del primo ottobre millenovecentosessantacinque, scriveva: "Riuscirono i cittadini di Angkor a realizzare il futuro progettato? A stento, perché se sembrarono adattarsi, volgendosi di prammatica dall'Induismo al Buddismo, lo fecero solo per sopravvivere. (Di loro non restano che le più impressionanti rovine del mondo). E i grandi re dei Khmers non sono che polvere."”

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Jerry Cornelius: Programma finale, Incipit

“Jerry Cornelius era un giovane con i capelli lunghi, sottili e neri che gli scendevano fin sotto le spalle. Indossava una giacca lunga a doppio petto nera e un paio di pantaloni grigio scuro. Portava una cravatta di lana nera e una camicia bianca con il colletto alto. Era magro, e aveva gli occhi grandi e scuri e le dita delle mani lunghe e sottili. L'altro uomo era un indiano, grassoccio e con l'aria da gufo – con un perenne sorriso stampato sul volto, qualsiasi cosa dicesse – in maniche di camicia e pantaloni di cotone”

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Fanucci, p. 9
Jerry Cornelius: Programma finale

“La fanciullezza è il periodo più felice della vita eccetto quando sei fanciullo”

Michael Moorcock

Fanucci, p. 11
Jerry Cornelius: Programma finale

Michael Moorcock: Frasi in inglese

“What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”

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“Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful”

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Michael Moorcock libro Elric of Melniboné

Origine: Elric of Melniboné

“There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The Land Leviathan

Book 1, Chapter 6 “A Haven of Civilization” (p. 214)
The Land Leviathan (1974)

“Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They’ve become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can’t survive without it.”

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Origine: Short fiction, London Bone (1997), p. 423

““So you are still our Master,” said Sabrina. She was frowning. She had come to be afraid again.
“Not so!” Lucifer turned, almost in rage. “You are your own masters. Your destiny is yours. Your lives are your own. Do you not see that this means an end to the miraculous? You are at the beginning of a new age for Man, an age of investigation and analysis.”
“The Age of Lucifer,” I said, echoing some of His own irony.
He saw the joke in it. He smiled.
“Man, whether he be Christian or pagan, must lean to rule himself, to understand himself, to take responsibility for himself. There can be no Armageddon now. If Man is destroyed, he shall have destroyed himself.”
“So we are to live without aid,” said Sabrina. Her face was clearing.
“And without hindrance,” said Lucifer. “It will be your fellows, your children and their children who will find the Cure for the World’s Pain.”
“Or perish in the attempt,” said I.
“It is a fair risk,” said Lucifer. “And you must remember, von Bek, that it is in my interest that you succeed. I have wisdom and knowledge at your disposal. I always had that gift for Man. And now that I may give it freely I choose not to do so. Each fragment of wisdom shall be earned. And it shall be hard-earned, captain.””

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Michael Moorcock libro The War Hound and the World's Pain

Origine: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 18 (p. 166)

“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”

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Origine: Elric: The Stealer of Souls

“You have no proof of this,” I said.
“No. But a theory must be tested to be disproved, Mr Bastable.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 1, Chapter 8 “A Decision in Cold Blood” (p. 233)
Oswald Bastable, The Land Leviathan (1974)

“How paltry is the thing they call science. We have something far superior! We have Faith. We have a Force greater than Reason! We have a wisdom beyond mere knowledge. We have the Holy Grail itself. The Chalice of Limitless Power!”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 2 (p. 642; words spoken by Hitler)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Oh, I believe very much in cause and effect,” she said, “but not in the linear sense. Every action has a proliferation of consequences. We can’t remain alive without being responsible for thousands of actions and their consequences. We simply have to live with that fact and decide, morally if you like, how to formulate a civilized, secure environment for ourselves. So far we haven’t succeeded.”

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Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 410)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Like most fanatics,” I pointed out coolly, “you share at least one characteristic with children—you want everything now. All improvements take time. You cannot make the world perfect overnight. Things are considerably better for more people today than they were in my—in the early years of this century, for instance.”

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Book 3, Chapter 1 “General O. T. Shaw” (p. 92)
Oswald Bastable, The Warlord of the Air (1971)

“The soldier shook his head, waxing philosophical. “It’s a madness, sir. We’ve all got it. It could go on until the last human being crawls away from the body of the chap he’s just bashed to bits with a stone. That’s what war is, sir—madness. You don’t think about what you’re doing. You forget, don’t you—you just go on killing and killing.””

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Michael Moorcock libro The Land Leviathan

Book 1, Chapter 2 “The Dream—and the Nightmare—of the Chilean Wizard” (p. 187)
The Land Leviathan (1974)

“It is many years since I have wielded a weapon larger than a pen, borne anything weightier than a difficult problem in philosophy.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The Runestaff

Book 3, Chapter 5 “Five Heroes and a Heroine” (p. 467)
The Runestaff (1969)

“By acting as they would act, we become what they are. And if we are what they are, then there is little point in resisting them!”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 4 (p. 564)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“Again that smile of exquisite and self-congratulatory piety.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The War Hound and the World's Pain

Origine: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 8 (p. 98)

“I would be grateful if I was allowed to work out my own destiny for once,” I said. “For good or ill.”

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Michael Moorcock Erekosë

Book 3 “Visions and Revelations” Chapter 4 “The Lady of the Chalice” (p. 416)
Erekosë, Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

“The hardest compromise to make is when you decide to appear to compromise. Often the deception becomes the reality long before you realize it.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The Mad God's Amulet

Origine: Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Machine” (p. 160), The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

““Are you still afraid?” I asked her.
“No,” she said, “I am thankful. The world has been threatened too long by the extraordinary, the supernatural and the monstrous. I shall be happy enough to smell the pines and hear the song of the thrush. And to be with you, Captain von Bek.”
“The world is still threatened,” I said to her, “but perhaps not by Lucifer. I held her hand tightly.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The War Hound and the World's Pain

Origine: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 18 (p. 166)

“Here the idea of God has been replaced by the idea of the Future. The two notions are, admittedly, all but identical in the way in which they are self-contradictory and thus always fundamentally confusing to their worshippers, who must look to priests for translation, and so inevitably the priests (or whatever they call them) gradually take power…”

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Michael Moorcock libro The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 413)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“He was a fool,” said Willow calmly to Klein. “There are many who refuse their responsibilities. Fooling themselves they search for a ‘higher ideal’. He was a fool.”
“What are responsibilities?” said Klein laconically. “He knows. Responsibility, my dear, is another word for self-interest. For survival.”

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She looked at Klein uncomprehendingly.
Origine: The Sundered Worlds (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 206)

“Warlocks and witches debate to determine how to make their broomsticks fly again. But how shall they ever come together in strength? Even if your ideas had any truth, they’re so frequently, by their very character, at odds. Each claims to hold the key to the only wisdom. That’s where natural philosophers, who do not impose what they need to believe (or at least not so readily!) upon the world, but analyze what they see, have the strong advantage.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The City in the Autumn Stars

Origine: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 9 (p. 310)

““I shall not be killed!” The count smiled scornfully, as if death were something that only others suffered.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The Jewel in the Skull

The Jewel in the Skull (1967)
Origine: Book 1, Chapter 2 “Yisselda and Bowgentle” (p. 13)

“It’s never ‘should’ with engineers, my old friend, but ‘how’? Have you not learned that much?”

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Origine: The von Bek family, The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 231)

“At that moment I railed against a God who could condemn such an innocent soul to Purgatory. What had Sedenko done that was not the result of his upbringing or his religion, which encouraged him to kill in the name of Christ? It came to me that perhaps God had become senile, that He had lost His memory and no longer remembered the purpose of placing Man on Earth. He had become petulant, He had become whimsical. He retained His power over us, but could no longer be appealed to. And where was His Son, who had been sent to redeem us? Was God’s Plan not so much mysterious as impossible for us to accept: because it was a malevolent one?”

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Michael Moorcock libro The War Hound and the World's Pain

Origine: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 7 (pp. 85-86)

““In Hell you become what you fear yourself to be. In Heaven you may become what you hope yourself to be,” said Lucifer.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The War Hound and the World's Pain

Origine: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 3 (p. 42)

“I had always claimed to welcome the truth; yet now, in common with most of us, I was resentful of the truth because it called upon me to take an unwelcome course of action.”

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Michael Moorcock libro The War Hound and the World's Pain

Origine: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 55)

“I was wondering what made a decent English army officer turn into a desperate revolutionist overnight,” I smiled.
“It happens to many like that,” he said. “I have seen them. But you have to show them so much injustice first… Nobody wants to believe that the world is cruel—or that one’s own kind are cruel. Not to know cruelty is to remain innocent, eh? And we should all like to remain innocent. A revolutionist is a man who, perhaps, fails to keep his innocence but so desperately wants it back that he seeks to create a world where all shall be innocent in that way.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 7 “Project NFB” (p. 135)
Oswald Bastable, The Warlord of the Air (1971)

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