“Gods black and white, dark and light! He shook his clenched fists above his head in the black gust of his passion. That I should stand by and see a man of mine butchered on a Roman cross—without justice and with no more trial than that farce! Black gods of R’lyeh, even you would I invoke to the ruin and destruction of those butchers! I swear by the Nameless Ones, men shall die howling for that deed, and Rome shall cry out as a woman in the dark who treads upon an adder!”
― Complete Works of Robert E. Howard
― Complete Works of Robert E. Howard
“And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
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