“Rufinus was an orator and a lawyer, a master of civil administration and agenda. It was because of him that the Eastern Empire—Byzantium—became a bureaucracy for a thousand years; and lived on because its administration had become too intricate to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
