"As regards very small celestial bodies of a light-minded nature, the law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity."
About R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction writer best known for his imaginative and eccentric short stories and novels from the 1960s and 1970s.
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