Clergyman's

Day dawned, as day generally does, in so spectacular a manner as to seem rather show-offy were it to be encountered among any less significant meteorological phenomena.
- Lin Carter

“I am not complaining, mind you,” the simurgh was saying in a grumpy, peevish tone of voice a while later, “I was merely pointing out that when one must tamper with the forces of nature, it is better to err on the side of caution and of prudence, than to be too liberal.
- Lin Carter

Yes, a woman makes a fine weapon in capable hands...slim and supple as a sword blade...and a blade to which no man’s armor is completely proof.
- Lin Carter

“If one doesn’t learn from one’s unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, “what’s the point of all that suffering?
- Lin Carter

“If one doesn’t learn from one’s unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, “what’s the point of all that suffering?
- Lin Carter

“If one doesn’t learn from one’s unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, “what’s the point of all that suffering?
- Lin Carter

“If one doesn’t learn from one’s unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, “what’s the point of all that suffering?
- Lin Carter

“What’s a simurgh?”
“A member of the winged species avian simurghi,” sniffed the simurgh. “Easy to identify because of his gorgeous plumage, ready wit, intelligent conversation, amiable disposition, and fabulous abilities.
- Lin Carter

The notion that heresy is a crime of the soul, to be cured by the chastisement of the body, he pointed out in his amiable way, contained an essential error. For the soul has no real connection to the body, merely residing therein for the while. To punish the body for the sins of the soul was, therefore, about as irrational as to burn down a tenement building because it had temporarily housed a criminal.
- Lin Carter

This life, my dear bird, consists of a haphazard sequence of accidental meetings and partings, very few of which can ever be anticipated, avoided or fully understood. The element of sheer Chance, my friend, conflicting as it does with the first principles of Causation, denies any premeditated plan on the part of Destiny. Destiny, therefore, may only be defined as the sum total of one’s accumulated experiences, which are themselves accidental and purposeless. ‘Purpose,’ you deduce from this, is an interpretation imposed upon a sequence of events after the fact.
- Lin Carter