The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it,
You shiver when you even make a joke of it. Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there,
The most fare sadly in a clammy casket there… Undying pain and gaping loss, no doubt of it.
A wide way leading in and no way out of it! But none have told the blackest horror shrouded there —
Tall teeming terror‚ but it sure is crowded there.


On Hellpepper Planet, Ch. 7 - Space Chantey (1968)

R. A. Lafferty Quotes

The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it, You shiver when you even make a joke of it. Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there,...

The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it, You shiver when you even make a joke of it. Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there,...

The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it, You shiver when you even make a joke of it. Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there,...

The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it, You shiver when you even make a joke of it. Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there,...