timour-i-lang

Updated: May 27, 2025

Fred's is the least sweet temper in the universe when the ague grips and shakes him, and he knows history as some men know the Bible by fathoms; he cursed the place conqueror by conqueror, maligning them for their city's sake, and if Sennacherib, who built the first foundations, and if Anthony and Cleopatra, Philip of Macedon, Timour-i-lang, Mahmoud, Ibrahim and all the rest of them could have come and listened by his bedside they would have heard more personal scandal of themselves than ever their contemporary chroniclers dared reveal.

Talbot Mundy - The Eye of Zeitoon