While departing on a business trip, a giant cube materializes and his plane is taken undamaged into the mysterious, indestructible structure.

She was undoubtedly the least human-looking anthropoid mammal in the whole county of Somerset. 

While the ubiquitous physical transportation setting is the “road network”, characterized by systems of roads connected together by interchanges, most analytical works about vehicle sharing represent distances between points in a plane using the simple Euclidean metric.

Except that this empty square, which up to now had only obsessed the surveyors of very abstract surfaces, suddenly took on the more romantic colors of a political fire, of aesthetic emotion, of pathic investment.

Common Era (CE) is a dating system established by New Sumifans in Almaaz.

A long short story based on the Author’s life with the painter Carl Apfelschnitt in a small town in New Mexico. How they attempt to evolve a Hyperaesthetic Philosophy; how they are branded as Satanists; and the death of the painter.

In this island, called California, there were many griffins, on account of the great ruggedness of the country, and its infinite host of wild beasts, such as never were seen in any other part of the world. And when these griffins were yet small, the women went out with traps to take them. They covered themselves over with very thick hides, and when they had caught the little griffins, they took them to their caves, and brought them up there. And being themselves quite a match for the griffins, they fed them with the men whom they took prisoners, and with the boys to whom they gave birth, and brought them up with such arts that they got much good from them, and no harm. Every man who landed on the island was immediately devoured by these griffins; and although they had had enough, none the less would they seize them, and tarry them high up in the air in their flight; and when they were tired of carrying them, would let them fall any where as soon as they died.

How could he have permitted this corrosive poison so to soak, with its fatal fungus-juice, every nerve of his being?

Notably, the camera does not reemerge from the ear canal until the end of the film.

He regained his composure by staring at a minute ant that was making a dead moth move as if it were alive upon the ground under the gate.