Quotes for the Day

[bellatrys]

For the sake of those who have gladly let slip certain dogs, in the name of our dead on this day six years past, and who would like to hunt a wider field, I post these vignettes, all from the book Unhappy Far-Off Things, published in 1916 by Lord Dunsany, fantasy author, Boer War, Gallipoli and Easter Rising survivor, describing what he had seen on

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[desperance]

He wrote no more fantasies of ancient lands and mystical beauty, afaik, after the Great War.

All his novels - most notably, perhaps (or at least best-known) "The King of Elfland's Daughter" (1924) - postdate the war. It's the voice of the short fantasies that he seems to have lost in the trenches.

[serizawa3000]

Thank you. :)

There's another anniversary on Sept. 11 that I try to tell people about, lest people forget. Last year, Sept. 11, 2006, marked the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi touching on the idea of using nonviolent protest as a means to an end.

[sartorias]

That's probably the most effective of his writing that I have ever read.

[nenya_kanadka]

*very quiet, reading*