What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
Werner Herzog (via elucipher)
Tag: monsters
Miéville suggested another term for these kinds of totally unknowable monsters–the “abcanny.” He then went on to indulge in at least ten more types of “–canny,” including the “subcanny” (monsters that are below the water), the “postcanny” (monsters made of trash), and the “precanny” (the terror of antiquity found in fossils and the like). It was a wonderful, witty, intoxicating taxonomical tour de force–as Miéville himself said, “Prefixes are like margaritas.”