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“...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water.”
― Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

“Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur

“In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill鈥攖he method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study

“Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.”
― Stefan Emunds, Gawain and the Green Knight

“At least I鈥檓 the one leaving. It鈥檚 so much easier to leave than to be left.”
― Stefan Emunds, Gawain and the Green Knight

“I want to sit around a Gypsy campfire, eating freshly caught rabbit in the company of bare knuckle fighters, and listen to stories about their fights. I want to sit with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table after they鈥檝e defeated the barbarians in battle. I want to be there when Arthur pulls Excalibur from the stone, and I want to be surrounded by dragons, wizards and sorcerers. I want to meet the Muslim leader, Saladin, who occupied Jerusalem in 1187, and despite the fact that a number of holy Muslim places had been violated by Christians, preferred to take Jerusalem without bloodshed. He prohibited acts of vengeance, and his army was so disciplined that there were no deaths or violence after the city surrendered. I want to sit around the desert campfire with him.
I want to drink with Caribbean buccaneers of the 17th century and listen to their tales of preying on shipping and Spanish settlements. I want to witness Celtic Berserkers fighting in ritual warfare in a trance-like fury. I want to spend time working on a scrap cruise, the very last cruise before the ship鈥檚 due to be scrapped, so there鈥檚 no future in it, and it attracts all the mad faces of the Merchant Navy. Faces that are known in that industry, who couldn鈥檛 survive outside 鈥榯he life鈥� and who for the most part are quite dangerous and mad themselves. I鈥檇 rather have one friend who鈥檒l fight like hell over ten who鈥檒l do nothing but talk shit. And I want to ride with highwaymen on ribbons of moonlight over the purple moor.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“All I could think of was the phrase my dad鈥檚 father used to say to him when I was a kid, 鈥淒on't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass,鈥� and I think I鈥檇 done just that.”
― Brynn Myers, Falling Out of Focus

“The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to do something about it.”
― Stefan Emunds, Gawain and the Green Knight

“Wake up! You鈥檙e a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.”
― Stefan Emunds, Gawain and the Green Knight

“Waiting for one鈥檚 execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did. Jesus even dragged his cross half way to Golgotha. I think he would have nailed himself to the cross if he had to.”
― Stefan Emunds, Gawain and the Green Knight