Quote of the Day

I often feel as if I am the only man who ever read ER Eddison’s brilliant, lucid, lavish, daring and overdecorated and work of post-Homeric pre-Tolkein epic wonder, THE WORM OUROBOROS.

I was fortunate enough to come across this quote from the esteemed Mr Pierce Oka:

 At least we are in the august company of such men as JRR Tolkien and  ER Eddison’s Editor (say that five times fast). We few, we happy few, we band of readers; For he to-day that reads this book with me shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, this book will gentle his condition; And gentlegeeks in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs’d they did not read, and hold their nerdhoods cheap, whiles any speaks, that read with us THE WORM OUROBOROS!

I have lauded the work before. Allow me to quote my praise from the Amazon.com page:

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