The Reefs of Earth (1968)
R. A. Lafferty: Trending quotes (page 6)
R. A. Lafferty trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collectionSource: Fourth Mansions (1969), Ch. 8
“When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.”
Captain Roadstrum, about the planet Lotophage, Ch. 1
Space Chantey (1968)
“An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”
Roadstrum to Puckett, on using crew members to test the lethality of the Siren-Zo, in Ch. 4
Space Chantey (1968)
“If you have come with high expectations of anything, you have come to the wrong place.”
A lieutenant of Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)
This presupposes that Finnegan is identical with Fion McCool as well as with the more derivative Fingal, and also with Cu Chulainn. Well, Finnegan is capable of being all. To those interested in this line I recommend Thurneysen’s Die Irische Helden- und Konigsage.
Interglossia
The Devil is Dead (1971)