Robert Jordan Quotes
If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed
Jordan, Robert. The Shadow Rising. Tor Books, 1992.
The Iroquois were very sophisticated diplomatically and had appointed Garangula, a chief of one of the Iroquois tribes, to be their Ambassador Plenipotentiary in negotiations with the French. The French had a number of complaints one of which was that the Iroquois had brought English traders into areas that the French regarded as their hegemony. Yonnondio was the name the Indians had given to the La Barre and Corlear, another powerful French Official. The French had threatened the Iroquois with war. In polite diplomatic terms, Garangula told the French to mind their own business and if war was what they wanted, war would be. Actually, the Iroquois had a more formidable and better organized military capability than did the French at that time. The French did not realize the sophistication of the Iroquois the way the English did, and thought that they could easily be intimidated. Note the Iroquois emphasis on their freedom.
James Oliver Rigney Jr., better known by his pseudonym Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is known best for his series the Wheel of Time (finished by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's death) which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels. Jordan also published historical fiction using the pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung. Rigney claimed to have ghostwritten an "international thriller" that is still believed to have been written by someone else.
