The Lost World of Dragons Exhibit

The Lost World of Dragons is an interactive exhibit currently running at the Reading Public Museum

The Red Dragoan. These specimens move and roar.

The White Dragon. Did dragons actually exsist? Some believe they actually did.

"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them."
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

The Dragon in Ancient China

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."― J.R.R. Tolkien

Armageddon

“Men were gathered on the square platform over the smoke hold of the House of Absence. They made way for him when he hoisted himself up the ladder. He was wheezing and trembling so that at first, he could see nothing. Then his saw. For awhile he forgot everything in the unbelievable sight.

The valley that wound from north to south along the base of the Tevar Hill to the river-valley east of the forest was full-full as the river in flood-time, swarming, over-running with Gaal¹. They were moving southward, a sluggish, contracting; always moving-moving southward, the Southing.

But in all the time past there had never been a Southing like this. As far as the eye could follow up the widening valley northward there were more coming and behind them more, and behind them more.

Besides that, slow torrent of people, the Winter City of Tevar was nothing-a pebble on the edge of the river in flood.”

Planet of Exile, Ursula K. LeGuin, Ace Books, © 1966.

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^{1: "The Gaal were a nomadic native tribe who migrated to the south during the harsh Winter."}

Title changed on 6/22/22. Formally titled the Great Gaal Southing.

The Lathe of Heaven

“Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.”

Chuang Tae: XXIII

The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Leguin, 1971