Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
Spoken at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895, as quoted in "American Heritage," (December 1968).
Mahmud Tarzi, reflecting on King Amanullah's exile. http://www.afghan-web.com/history/quotes.html Link
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
Context: The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear.
This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand.
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
“We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.”
The Dusty Hat (p. 203)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)
“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven't ended yet.”
Closing lines
Deadeye Dick (1982)
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
