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"To save his kingdom, Anubis, Lord of the Dead sends forth his servant on a mission of vengeance. At the same time, from The House of Life, Osiris sends forth his son, Horus, on the same mission to destroy utterly and forever The Prince Who Was a Thousand. But neither of these superhuman warriors is prepared for the strange and harrowing world of mortal life, and The Thing That Cries in the Night may well destroy not only their worlds, but all mankind"--Cover p. [4].… (más)
"Criaturas de luz y tinieblas" o "Criaturas de luz y oscuridad" es uno de los primeros libros que dio a luz el escritor estadounidense Roger Zelazny. Este libro es una narración sobre el universo y su creación, la lucha continua entre la vida y la muerte, y mezcla el misticismo egipcio con cruentas y salvajes acciones de la modernidad. Cada ideal va reflejado en un personaje del libro; por ejemplo, la revolución y la guerra es representada por el "General de Acero", la vida por Osiris y la muerte por Anubis. En «Criaturas de Luz y Tinieblas» se cuenta la historia de "El príncipe que fue Mil" intentando recuperar su reino por derecho, y los intentos de la Casa de la Vida y la Casa de la Muerte por evitarlo. El libro comienza con un diálogo mantenido entre Anubis y un hombre mortal por el sentido de su propia existencia y la del hombre. La legitimidad del hombre para poder decir "Yo soy" en función de los cambios que se van dando en el devenir de los siglos, y cómo su alma inmortal podría dotar de humanidad a un cuerpo de metal en caso de que se descubriera el modo de prolongar nuestro cuerpo eternamente.
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Generations pass away and others go on, since the time of the ancestors. They that build buildings, their places are no more, What has been done with them?
I have heard the words of Imhotep and Hardedef, with whose sayings men speak so much, What are their places now?
Their walls are crumbled, their places are non-existent, as if they had never been.
No one returns from there, so that he might tell us their disposition, that he might tell us how they are, that he might still our hearts, until we shall go to the place where they have gone.
Make holiday and weary not therein! Behold, it is not given to a man to take his property with him. Behold, no one who goes can come back again. --Harris 500, 6: 2-9
Comus enters with a Charming Rod in one hand, his Glass in the other; with him a rout of Monsters, headed like sundry sorts of wild Beasts. They come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with Torches in their hands. --Milton
The Human Dress is forged Iron. The Human Form a fiery Forge. The Human Face a Furnace seal'd. The Human Heart is hungry Gorge. --Blake
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To Chip Delany, Just Because
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The man walks through his Thousandyear Eve in the House of the Dead.
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"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to ensure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen."
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As the poem fades, the Angel of the House of Life knows that it was true, but forgets the words, which is as it should be.
"To save his kingdom, Anubis, Lord of the Dead sends forth his servant on a mission of vengeance. At the same time, from The House of Life, Osiris sends forth his son, Horus, on the same mission to destroy utterly and forever The Prince Who Was a Thousand. But neither of these superhuman warriors is prepared for the strange and harrowing world of mortal life, and The Thing That Cries in the Night may well destroy not only their worlds, but all mankind"--Cover p. [4].
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