バートランド・ラッセルの名言・警句( Bertrand Russell Quotes )

Bertrand Russell Quotes 366

Gulliver's Travels has had the curious fate of being regarded as one for the amusement of children, although it is the most biting and devastating and completely black of all the satires ever penned by embittered men. The account of Laputa is an early example of science fiction. ...
Laputa showed me the possibility of scientific horrors and made me realize that, however scientific, they remain horrors. Abominations are abominations even if the utmost skill is required to contrive them.
Source: Digust and Its Antidote. London Calling, n908 (28 March 1957)
Reprinted in: Fact and Fiction, p.31

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