Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Mists of Avalon. Knopf, 1982.
Like the Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, he produced gigantic murals with historical and social themes. He actually included lynchings and KKK meetings and Mormon persecution in his works which offended many Missouri politicians, but then he was probably in a better position to do so than any artist in Missouri.
The first three public libraries had been opened in Rome under Augustus. By Constantine’s reign there were 28. Libraries at the time were not only repositories of books and manuscripts but places of social congregation of men—a cross between a men’s club and a modern library. In the great Roman library at Ephesus, an underground tunnel connected with the brothel across the street. When the barbarians invaded, all the libraries closed.
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series. While she is noted for her feminist perspective in her writing, her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse and rape by two of her children, Mark and Moira Greyland, and others, and for enabling her husband at the time (who was an admitted pedophile) to abuse and rape multiple unrelated children.
