Herbie Brennan Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. July 5, 1940
Birthday: July 5
How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition.
source: Herbie Brennan (2011). “Faerie Wars”, p.167, A&C Black
topic: Father, Essence, Superstitions, Smelly
