...only In The Surrender Of The Light

The Only Reason There's Such A Thing As A Morning In The First Place Is To Keep Night And Afternoon From Bumping Into Each Other. -kheldar

Any Time There's Something So Ridiculously Dangerous That No Rational Human Being Would Try It, They Send For Me.' --garion

Contemporary Fantasists All Bow Politely To Lord Tennyson And Papa Tolkien, Then Step Around Them To Go Back To The Original Texts For Inspiration--and There Are A Lot Of Those Texts. We Have King Arthur And His Gang In English; We've Got Siegfried And Brunhild In German; Charlemagne And Roland In French; El Cid In Spanish; Sigurd The Volsung In Icelandic; And Assorted 'myghtiest Knights On Lyfe' In A Half-dozen Other Cultures. Without Shame, We Pillage Medieval Romance For All We're Worth.

Call It My Little Gesture Toward Social Conscience, But I Like To Think I'm Teaching A Certain Number Of People To Read. Now That Sounds Pretentious!

Who Owns A Man, Durnik?” The Blond Young Man Asked Sadly. “the One Who Rules Him, Or The One Who Pays Him?