“Bomanz could not get away from the bird, who, if he had been human, would have hung out in taverns masquerading as the world’s foremost authority, armed with an uninformed and ready opinion on every conceivable subject. His cheerful bigotry and who-cares ignorance drove the old man’s temper to its limit.”

— Glen Cook , book The Silver Spike

Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 21 (pp. 506-507)

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