4.13.2010
A Couple More Killer Quotes from an Extraordinary Novel
“Hypocrisy is thriving. And its future is even brighter.”
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“The mganga* has turned your head.”
“Perhaps,” I replied, “perhaps he has turned my head. But now I know I am looking in the right direction.”
— The Collector of Worlds, A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton by Iliya Troyanov
*mganga — medicine man
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This quote, obviously, is to soften us for your balls to the wall campaign to get John Lowell Burton knighted.
Comment by Wiliam Strunk, Jr. — 4.13.2010 @ 5:18 pm