“The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone.”

—  Eric Rücker Eddison, book The Worm Ouroboros

Ch. 3 : The Red Foliot http://www.sacred-texts.com/ring/two/two09.htm <br class="br">The Worm Ouroboros (1922)

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