Eric Rücker Eddison

Quotes

• “The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone.”

• “So flieth folly before wisdom which is in wine,” said the King. “The night is young: bring me botargoes, and caviare and toast.”

• “And at the last, howsoe’er we shape our course, cometh the poppy that abideth all of us by the harbour of oblivion hard to cleanse. Dry withered leaves of laurel or of cypress tree, and a little dust. Nought else remaineth.”

• “And the Lord Juss cried aloud in his agony, “Fling me to Tartarus, deliver me to the black infernal Furies, let them blind me, seethe me in the burning lake. For so should there yet be hope. But in this horror of Nothing is neither hope nor life nor death nor sleep nor waking, for ever. For ever.””

• “The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

Books by Eric Rücker Eddison in order

Books by Eric Rücker Eddison in the order they were published, from The Worm Ouroboros (1900) to Poems, Letters and Memories of Philip Sydney Nairn (2014).

1. 1The Worm OuroborosThe Worm Ouroboros1900
2. 2Styrbiorn the StrongStyrbiorn the Strong1926
3. 3Mistress of MistressesMistress of Mistresses1935
4. 4A Fish Dinner in MemisonA Fish Dinner in Memison1941
5. 5The Sources of Lord of the Rings and The Children of Hurin bThe Sources of Lord of the Rings and The Children of Hurin by J.R.R.Tolkien, Series I2007
6. 6Poems, Letters and Memories of Philip Sydney NairnPoems, Letters and Memories of Philip Sydney Nairn2014
7. 7The Mezentian GateThe Mezentian Gate
8. 8ZimiamviaZimiamvia

Series by Eric Rücker Eddison

• The Zimiamvian Trilogy