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"Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away. (p. 17)"
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Keith Laumer"“All right. Let’s begin with the world situation.” “I’d prefer a more cheerful subject—like cancer.”"
John Keith Laumer was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. His older brother March Laumer was also a writer, known for his adult reinterpretations of the Land of Oz. Frank Laumer, their youngest brother, is a historian and writer.
"Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away. (p. 17)"
"The last burst picked me up and threw me a thousand miles into an open grave and the mud showered down on me and a giant tombstone fell out of the sky to mark the place, but I didn’t care any more, because I was far away, in that place where the heroes and the cowards lie together with a fine impartiality, waiting for eternity to pass, slowly, like a procession of snails creeping across an endless desert toward a distant line of mountains. (p. 18)"
"“M-magic?” Lafayette stuttered. “Nonsense. Electronics.”"
"He turned; she stood in the doorway, clad in an invisible negligee."
"Sure—that’s the concept. It wouldn’t be the first concept that had to be modified in the face of experience."
"Don’t go female on me now. We don’t have time for nonsense."