Citations:homunculus

English citations of homunculus

• 1990, César Ruiz Aquino, Chronicles of suspicion, page 187:

  We are reduced to knowing that he is only a poor, demented as if the encounter, loonily triumphant as it is, proves to be unworthy of homunculus and the hallucination is a hallucination is a hallucination — if the encounter, loonily triumphant as it is, proves to be unworthy of fantasy, that he bowls us over, that he is - as we now say - fantastic.

• 1996 — ... it is making desperate attempts to survive, producing strange homunculi in the alchemical laboratories of the spirit. — Victor Pelevin, Crystal World, 1994. Translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield