The Mind Worms are the natural defenses of the living Planet--the
white blood cells, if you will. In a world in which unassimilated
thought represents danger, the Mind Worm seeks out concentrations of
sentient mental energy and destroys them, ruthlessly and efficiently.
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"Mind Worm, Mind Worm"
white blood cells, if you will. In a world in which unassimilated
thought represents danger, the Mind Worm seeks out concentrations of
sentient mental energy and destroys them, ruthlessly and efficiently.
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"Mind Worm, Mind Worm"
Related:
- In the years since our arrival, we have foolishly disrupted so
many of Planet's ecosystems that entire species may vanish
without our ever having understood,
or even known them. We must halt this plunder, and... - The Isle of the Deep is really not a single creature but a colony
of thousands of individual tubules,
an aquatic vector of the Mind Worm which terrorizes... - As the writhing, teeming mass of Mind Worms swarmed over the outer
perimeter,
we saw the defenders recoil in horror. "Stay calm!... - Are you out of
my mind... - Are you out of
your mind... - If you are a worm,
sleep late... - White:
it is a complexion of the mind... - Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving System Dynamics
Once you open a can of worms,
the only way to recan them is to use a larger... - Out of sight,
out of...
