Glory Road (novel)/Quotes: Difference between revisions

''   I wanted a [[Aladdin (novel)|Roc's egg]]. I wanted [[Arabian Nights|a harem loaded with lovely odalisques]] less than the dust beneath [[Ben-Hur|my chariot wheels]], the rust that never stained my sword. I wanted [[Gold Rush (TV series)|raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist]] and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted to get up feeling brisk and [[King Arthur|go out and break some lances]], then pick a likely wench for my '''[[Droit Du Seigneur|droit du seigneur]]''' -- I wanted to stand up to the Baron and '''dare''' him to touch my wench! I wanted to hear the purple water chuckling against the skin of the '''[[wikipedia:The Wreck of the Nancy Lee|Nancy Lee]]''' in the cool of the morning watch and not another sound, nor any movement save the slow tilting of the wings of [[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner|the albatross]] that had been pacing us the last thousand miles.

''   I wanted [[wikipedia:Prester John|Prester John]], and [[Le Morte d'Arthur|Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake]]. I wanted to sail with [[The Odyssey|Ulysses]] and with [[wikipedia:Tros of Samothrace|Tros of Samothrace]] and [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174631 eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon]. I wanted [[Here There Were Dragons|the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder]] [[Nostalgia Filter|I had known as a kid]]. I wanted the world to be [[Sugar Bowl|what they promised me it was going to be]] -- instead of [[Crapsack World|the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is]].''}}