Quotes from Angalo (a nome from the Bromeliad)
Many humans spend a lot of time travelling from place to place, which is odd because there are usually too many humans at the place they’re going to anyway. (Wings)
AIRPORTS: A place where people hurry up and wait. (Wings)
'If it is alligators,’ said Gurder, trying to look noble, ‘I shall show them how a nome can die with dignity.’
‘Please yourself,’said Angalo, his eyes scanning the undergrowth. ‘I'm planning to show them how a nome can run away with speed.' (Wings)
GRAVITY: This is not properly understood, but it is what makes small things, like nomes, stick to big things, like planets. Because of SCIENCE, this happens whether you you know about gravity or not. Which just goes to show that Science is happening all the time. (Wings)
SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it’s wrong. There is a lot more to Science than you think. (Wings)
It is a helicopter.’
‘It’s certainly noisy,’ said Gurder, who had never come across the word.
‘It is a “plane without wings”,’ said Angalo, who had.
Gurder gave this a few moments’ careful and terrified thought.
‘Thing?’ he said slowly.
‘Yes?’
‘What keeps it up in the-’ Gurder began.
‘Science.’
‘Oh. Well. Science? Good. That’s all right, then.' (Wings)
'You get more air close to the ground,’ said Angalo.‘I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up.’
‘Why not?’ said Gurder.
‘Dunno. It’s frightened of heights, I guess.' (Wings)
'Where are we heading Angalo?'
Angalo rubbed his hands and puller every lever right back.
'So far up,' he said, with satisfaction, 'that there is no down.' (Wings)
SPACE: There are two types of space: a) something containing nothing and b) nothing contains everything. It is what you have left when you haven't got anything else. There is no air or gravity, which is what holds people on to things. If there wasn't space, everything would be in one place. (Wings)
AIRPORTS: A place where people hurry up and wait. (Wings)
'If it is alligators,’ said Gurder, trying to look noble, ‘I shall show them how a nome can die with dignity.’
‘Please yourself,’said Angalo, his eyes scanning the undergrowth. ‘I'm planning to show them how a nome can run away with speed.' (Wings)
GRAVITY: This is not properly understood, but it is what makes small things, like nomes, stick to big things, like planets. Because of SCIENCE, this happens whether you you know about gravity or not. Which just goes to show that Science is happening all the time. (Wings)
SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it’s wrong. There is a lot more to Science than you think. (Wings)
It is a helicopter.’
‘It’s certainly noisy,’ said Gurder, who had never come across the word.
‘It is a “plane without wings”,’ said Angalo, who had.
Gurder gave this a few moments’ careful and terrified thought.
‘Thing?’ he said slowly.
‘Yes?’
‘What keeps it up in the-’ Gurder began.
‘Science.’
‘Oh. Well. Science? Good. That’s all right, then.' (Wings)
'You get more air close to the ground,’ said Angalo.‘I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up.’
‘Why not?’ said Gurder.
‘Dunno. It’s frightened of heights, I guess.' (Wings)
'Where are we heading Angalo?'
Angalo rubbed his hands and puller every lever right back.
'So far up,' he said, with satisfaction, 'that there is no down.' (Wings)
SPACE: There are two types of space: a) something containing nothing and b) nothing contains everything. It is what you have left when you haven't got anything else. There is no air or gravity, which is what holds people on to things. If there wasn't space, everything would be in one place. (Wings)
