I don't think I should be getting more attention from mainstream book reviewers. I've never written any mainstream books, and I'm always surprised wh… - R. A. Lafferty

Roadstrum had a way of putting it on a little thick himself. "Be there a man among you who doubts my demesne or destiny, then I have fared in vain," he said. "I bare my throat to the treacherous steel —" "All right, all right," the three tough crewmen capitulated. We're with you all the way and in everything. Only spare us the 'act.'"

As regards very small celestial bodies of a light-minded nature, the law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

Man-a-bleeding, but they broke out of that place! You say it can't be done, but they did it. Their expectations had been too high, and no second-rate Hell could hold them. In a way it was their greatest feat. No one else had ever broken out of there before.