“ Drunkenness is better for the body than physic! Drink always, and you shall never die! E.R. Eddison
“ This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended. E.R. Eddison
“ Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece. E.R. Eddison
“ I sware unto you my furtherance if I prevailed. But now is mine army passed away as wax wasteth before the fire, and I wait the dark ferryman who tarrieth for no man. Yet, since never have I wrote min… E.R. Eddison
“ The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone E.R. Eddison
“ Abase thee and serve me, worm of the pit. Else will I by and by summon out of ancient night intelligences and dominations mightier far than thou, and they shall serve my ends, and thee shall they chai… E.R. Eddison
“ Art thou so deeply read in nature and her large philosophy, and I am yet to teach thee that deadliest hellebore or the vomit of a toad are qualified poison to the malice of a woman? E.R. Eddison
“ Surely, he said, the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom’s fount. They are deep in time. They k… E.R. Eddison
“ Oaths be of the heart, and he that breaketh them in open fact is oft, as now, no breaker in truth, for already were they scorned and trampled on by his opposites. E.R. Eddison
“ Surely... the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. They know the… E.R. Eddison
“ Kings and governors that do exult in strength and beauty and lustihood and rich apparel, showing themselves for awhile upon the stage of the world and open dominion of high heaven, what are they but t… E.R. Eddison
“ The sun stooped to the western waves, entering his bath of blood-red fire. He sank, and all the ways were darkened. E.R. Eddison
“ In which star of the unclimbed sky wilt though begin our search? Or in which of the secret streams of the ocean where the last green rays are quenched in oozy darkness? E.R. Eddison
“ Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? and a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o'erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung that e… E.R. Eddison
“ Tenderly he drew on his lambswool gloves, and shivered a little; for the breath of that desert blew snell and frore and there seemed a shadow in the air southward, for all it was bright and gentle wea… E.R. Eddison
