LMC 3214 Unit 1: Quotes with verified
solutions
"He looked at it as one might look into the eyes of a brave enemy. "You may kill me," he said.
"But I can hold you—and all the universe for that matter—in the grip of this small brain. I would
not change. Even now." - ANS ✔H.G. Wells, "The Star" (1897)
- middle of the story
- said by the master mathematician to the star
- said after he finished his calculations that he stayed up 4 nights to complete
- said before looking at his vial of drugs and saying "There will be no need for sleep again"
"Which only shows how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a
few million miles" - ANS ✔H.G. Wells, "The Star" (1897)
- last sentence
- said by The Martian astronomers
- "Considering the mass and temperature of the missile that was flung through our solar system
into the sun," one wrote, "it is astonishing what a little damage the earth, which it missed so
narrowly, has sustained. All the familiar continental markings and the masses of the seas remain
intact..."
"Earth, the parent world of our human race, had always held a special place in our hearts. Even
those of us whose ancestors for thousands of generations back have been born on Pluto or
Saturn or one of the other worlds, feel somehow when we visit Earth for the first time that we
are getting home." - ANS ✔Edmund Hamilton,"Thundering Worlds" (1934)
- the moment that Earth tears away from her
original sun, towards the middle of the story
- said by Lonnat of Mercury being nostalgic
, "When Vira dies as our old sun died, we can go on in our worlds to another sun. Sun after sun
we can hold, and man and man's power shall not end until the universe has ended!" - ANS
✔Edmund Hamilton,"Thundering Worlds" (1934)
- last sentence, as the 8 planets have settled into their new sun's orbit
- said by Hurg to Lonnat
"Finally, I made a puzzled gesture to Tweel; I guess he understood, for he said, 'one-one-two—
yes! Two-two-four—no!' Get it?" - ANS ✔Stanley G. Weinbaum, "A Martian Odyssey" (1934)
- Last third of the story
- said by Jarvis about Tweel's comments on the barrel creature's intelligence
- "Well, I was getting used to Tweel's symbolism, and I figured it out this way. 'One-one-two—
yes!' The creatures were intelligent. 'Two-two-four—no!' Their intelligence was not of our order,
but something different and beyond the logic of two and two is four. Maybe I missed his
meaning. Perhaps he meant that their minds were of low degree, able to figure out the simple
thing —'One-one-two—yes!'—but not more difficult things—'Two-two-four—no!' But I think
from what we saw later that he meant the other."
"Thanks Tweel, you're a man! And felt I wasn't paying him any compliment at all. A man! There
are mighty few men who would do that." - ANS ✔Stanley G. Weinbaum, "A Martian Odyssey"
(1934)
- End of the story
- said by Jarvis to Tweel right before Putz picked up Jarvis in the rocket
- "We were through and I knew it! Then I realized that Tweel wasn't. He could have leaped the
mound behind us as easily as not. He was staying for me!"
"Now what would those ingenious writers, those prophetic ancestors of ours, say today if they
could come among us? Would they be disappointed to find that the world is still moving along
in its usual every-day grooves; to find us still the same people with two legs and two arms, two
eyes and one chin; same people of habit they were; would they marvel to see us still enjoying
family life and simple amusements?" - ANS ✔Leslie F. Stone, "A Letter of the 24th Century"
(1929)
solutions
"He looked at it as one might look into the eyes of a brave enemy. "You may kill me," he said.
"But I can hold you—and all the universe for that matter—in the grip of this small brain. I would
not change. Even now." - ANS ✔H.G. Wells, "The Star" (1897)
- middle of the story
- said by the master mathematician to the star
- said after he finished his calculations that he stayed up 4 nights to complete
- said before looking at his vial of drugs and saying "There will be no need for sleep again"
"Which only shows how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a
few million miles" - ANS ✔H.G. Wells, "The Star" (1897)
- last sentence
- said by The Martian astronomers
- "Considering the mass and temperature of the missile that was flung through our solar system
into the sun," one wrote, "it is astonishing what a little damage the earth, which it missed so
narrowly, has sustained. All the familiar continental markings and the masses of the seas remain
intact..."
"Earth, the parent world of our human race, had always held a special place in our hearts. Even
those of us whose ancestors for thousands of generations back have been born on Pluto or
Saturn or one of the other worlds, feel somehow when we visit Earth for the first time that we
are getting home." - ANS ✔Edmund Hamilton,"Thundering Worlds" (1934)
- the moment that Earth tears away from her
original sun, towards the middle of the story
- said by Lonnat of Mercury being nostalgic
, "When Vira dies as our old sun died, we can go on in our worlds to another sun. Sun after sun
we can hold, and man and man's power shall not end until the universe has ended!" - ANS
✔Edmund Hamilton,"Thundering Worlds" (1934)
- last sentence, as the 8 planets have settled into their new sun's orbit
- said by Hurg to Lonnat
"Finally, I made a puzzled gesture to Tweel; I guess he understood, for he said, 'one-one-two—
yes! Two-two-four—no!' Get it?" - ANS ✔Stanley G. Weinbaum, "A Martian Odyssey" (1934)
- Last third of the story
- said by Jarvis about Tweel's comments on the barrel creature's intelligence
- "Well, I was getting used to Tweel's symbolism, and I figured it out this way. 'One-one-two—
yes!' The creatures were intelligent. 'Two-two-four—no!' Their intelligence was not of our order,
but something different and beyond the logic of two and two is four. Maybe I missed his
meaning. Perhaps he meant that their minds were of low degree, able to figure out the simple
thing —'One-one-two—yes!'—but not more difficult things—'Two-two-four—no!' But I think
from what we saw later that he meant the other."
"Thanks Tweel, you're a man! And felt I wasn't paying him any compliment at all. A man! There
are mighty few men who would do that." - ANS ✔Stanley G. Weinbaum, "A Martian Odyssey"
(1934)
- End of the story
- said by Jarvis to Tweel right before Putz picked up Jarvis in the rocket
- "We were through and I knew it! Then I realized that Tweel wasn't. He could have leaped the
mound behind us as easily as not. He was staying for me!"
"Now what would those ingenious writers, those prophetic ancestors of ours, say today if they
could come among us? Would they be disappointed to find that the world is still moving along
in its usual every-day grooves; to find us still the same people with two legs and two arms, two
eyes and one chin; same people of habit they were; would they marvel to see us still enjoying
family life and simple amusements?" - ANS ✔Leslie F. Stone, "A Letter of the 24th Century"
(1929)
