More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Eliot, quote from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!” (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)Īre nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time He always has an alibi, and one or two to spaer:Īt whatever time the deed took place - MACAVITY WASN'T THERE!Īnd they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, Or engaged in doing complicated long-division sums.
You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs, 'It must have been Macavity!' - but he's a mile away. There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair -īut it's useless to investigate - Mcavity's not there!Īnd when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say: Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way, Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair -Īy, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there!Īnd when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray, Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled, (They say he cheats at cards.)Īnd his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's.Īnd when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled, ― Liu Cixin, quote from The Three-Body Problem But without oil, you’d have to tumble in a sailboat for more than a month.… These are the rules of the game of civilization: The first priority is to guarantee the existence of the human race and their comfortable life. Right now, if you want to visit your grandfather, you can get there on my personal jet and cross the ocean in a dozen hours or so. But without oil, it would be a pile of junk metal and you’d never drive it. Can you imagine life without oil? Your last birthday, I gave you that lovely Ferrari and promised you that you could drive it after you turned fifteen. We can have no sea birds, but we can’t be without oil. This is only an insignificant episode in a much vaster process. Now is truly the age of mass extinctions! So, my child, what you’re seeing is nothing. Right now, species on Earth are going extinct far faster than during the late Cretaceous. The period we live in now is far more frightening. Let me tell you now what I wanted to tell you that night: If you really lived during the Cretaceous Period, you’d be fortunate. The world first became a sea of fire, and then sank into a prolonged period of darkness and coldness.… One night, you woke from a nightmare, saying that you had dreamt that you were back in that terrifying age. The Three-Body Problem is the first in a trilogy of novels called Remembrance of Earth’s Past, with the second and third novels being The Dark Forest and Death’s End, respectively.“My father then said, ‘Mike, I’ve told you how dinosaurs went extinct. Don’t give up early on! I mean, this book got Obama’s stamp of approval, if that means anything to you. The story does take a little while to find its footing, but once it does, you’ll be hooked.It’s fascinating, at least as an American reader, to read about an alien invasion from the perspective of Chinese scientists and the political system they live under.This is one of those books that will make you rethink how you look at the universe (particularly the field of physics).I’m so tempted to add more to that description, but I must refrain because any more would spoil things. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. If you’re in need of a good sci-fi novel to read, might I recommend Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem? This Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel - which was first published in China in 2006 and translated into English by Ken Liu in 2014 - centers around an age-old question: What would it mean for humanity to make contact with an extraterrestrial species?
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