“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some taste and was awed by really great art. The Greeks were only human, and all their work could… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Aye, a man’d be a fool to lose his head twice over the same thing,” Thomas mused, still looking more than half stubborn. “Of… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“The Goths had trained bears and possibly, from one garbled account, trained seals. The dance is something with no survival, lacking verbal or pictorial… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“Olympius, in the name of the Emperor Honorius, ordered the forces in Bologna to take the field against Alaric, on peril of the death… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“Alaric now at this moment of supreme crisis, coming down to the rough shore and seeing the howling waves, raised his hand to heaven… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“Paul was coursing at fantastic speed towards the area where the little twin stars Rhium and Antirhium revolved around each other. “Hurry,” were his… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“Science Fiction is a collection of guerrilla bands each challenging the rights of the others to belong to the centrality. The band most challenged… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“I say no man ever before slew his friend mouthful of words.” “And I say it has happened many times before. Consider the Assassinations,… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“I finally saw the whole conspiracy standing as plain as an elephant in the street; also the conspiracy was admitted to me in great… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“But we are all Goths, for all that, whoever we are; which is to say, Outlanders. And like the Goth Sarus we still owe… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more than a… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“The Western Empire, supported generation after generation by half a hundred of the strongest and most remarkable men in history, from Stilicho to Charlemagne,… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“Dr. Ginochio Gyves would have been the first man on the moon except for a trifling error of navigation. He lands. He sees a… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“After we were men we were tribal gods. We each have our tribe that we sometimes inspire and that we follow with interest. My… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“Science Fiction is a group of symptoms and not a disease,” so a medical student (failed) told me once. “It's like the old disease… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“You believe, in one of your theories, that we're in control of the world. We aren't. But we have been, and we will be… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
