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Author: kjnoren

Nov 18th 2013 at 5:03:00 AM

I've been looking for a quote in the Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo books, and found some awesome but quite long ones:

Like this one, after the Cardinal-Infante has been given the recipe for chloramphenicol (a synthetic antibiotic) by his opponents):

-->"That won't be good enough, I'm afraid." Don Fernando sighed. "I have no choice but to use it. But . . . why do I have the feeling I'm looking at a Trojan Horse here?"
-->Rubens' eyes widened. "It's just medicine, Your Highness."
-->The Spanish prince shook his head. "Horses come in many shapes."

or this one, even longer:

-->He still had the original papers the nurse had left behind. Acting, he was quite certain, on another's orders.
--->How to Make Chloramphenicol
-->The pages that followed that title gave precise instructions for how to manufacture the world's most potent medicine.
-->The monster's stiletto, that the creature had driven into the heart of the world's greatest dynasty, his aim guided by a dragon's cunning and the force of the thrust by a titan's thews.
-->Who else could have conceived such an assassin's stroke?