mooncalf

• “That's what's happened in less far-reaching schemes in the past and that was the objective of these plans,Peter Taylor-GoobyProfessor of social policy, University of Kent• Tim Dowling's article was a great introduction to gallery rage G2, 10 May, but I must add to the list of outrages: standing four inches from the painting; pontificating at 100 decibels; wandering around like a mooncalf and randomly blocking the vision of all and sundry.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Artistic vision

• “Of those mooncalf, ill-fitting, ineffably strange examples he lists, his first and most outstanding is The Island of Doctor Moreau.”

  The Guardian: The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction

• “My son, the brutal mooncalf, is still alive, though barely, starving and buried inside some mountain.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deeper

• “I infer rather than learn from his narrative that he was captured by the mooncalf herds under the direction of these other Selenites who”

  First Men in the Moon

• “From a partially divided carcass of a mooncalf that we presently saw, I am inclined to believe it must have been mooncalf flesh.”

  First Men in the Moon

• “The strange and (except for the want of mandibles and palps) most insect-like head of the mooncalf-minders underwent, indeed, the most incredible transformations: here it was broad and low, here high and narrow; here its leathery brow was drawn out into horns and strange features; here it was whiskered and divided, and there with a grotesquely human profile.”

  First Men in the Moon

• “They may think we are new animals, a new sort of mooncalf perhaps!”

  First Men in the Moon

• “Outside began a terrific bellowing, as if a mooncalf were in trouble.”

  First Men in the Moon

• “I had realised that we might work from mooncalf to mooncalf up the cave until we were near enough to charge home.”

  First Men in the Moon

• “His thoughts are of mooncalf pastures, and his dialect an accomplished mooncalf technique.”

  First Men in the Moon

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