Welcome to Litsy!

“He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They #think they've won because he's a bit vague and he waffles, but that only goes so far. It's his shell, like a tortoise, if a tortoise was soft on the outside and dangerous on the inside. That's how the Time War ended: he got to the bottom of his patience, and he took two entire civilisations out of the universe and locked them away, and one of them was his own.”

#QuotsyFeb18

Picked this up based on the strength of Nick Harkaway's novel Tigerman and was mostly pleased. The Tenth Doctor is not my favourite incarnation and Harkaway leaned too heavily into his ticks (many Allons-ys and Wellllls, plus a couple What?!s for good measure), but the story was good and there were plenty of quotable passages. A fun, short read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

He wondered if today was that day, if he‘d wake up different, wake up someone else who remembered him fondly. A new Doctor. He wondered if he‘d approve. Would he be more gentle? That might not be so bad. More vengeful? He hoped not. Maybe he‘d be a girl. That was distantly possible. Never been a girl. The Corsair had been a girl for a while. New perspective. Confuse people. Keep life interesting.

‘So who did you go to war with? Who could possibly stand up to you?‘

‘Oh, the Daleks. They were technologically advanced but really… nasty.‘

‘And the Time Lords were nice?‘

He thought about that. ‘On balance, no.‘

Tigerman was one of the best books I read last year, so I'm excited to see what Nick Harkaway does with Doctor Who.

There are certainly worse ways to spend a Sunday morning than listening to David Tennant narrate a tale of alien centaurs, killer robots, and human-transforming-beetles 🤖 😁🐞

"Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the future there was a really amazing planet where they'd evolved into people and lived in harmony with a variety of hyper-intelligent bee. Evolution. Thousands and thousands of years of tiny changes could turn little burning sparks of chemistry into people, into monsters and angels and even human beings."

#aQuoteaDay