“It’s been said that the quest for truth is the noblest occupation of man, but there be dragons lurking in the dark forests of ignorance. And the names of these dragons are ‘Incompetence’ and ‘Political Bias’ and ‘Deliberate Distortion’ and ‘Sheer, Wrongheaded Stupidity.’ Our gallant friends here in Contemporary History bravely sallied forth to do battle with these dragons in their recently published ‘Cyrga Affair.’ It is with the deepest regret that I must inform you that the dragons won.”
Professor Itagne, Foreign Affairs Department, University of Matherion
The Hidden City, Tamuli Part 3
David Eddings