Glory Road

Glory Road2006

Stars: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, Jon Voight
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Rating: PG
Runtime: 118 minutes

Glory Road (1963) is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July - September 1963) and published as a book later the same year. It tells of the adventures of E. C. Gordon, (aka Osca… more »



Glory Road:
I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward. Bravery is going on anyhow when you are so terrified your sphincters won't hold and you can't breathe and your heart threatens to stop, and that is an exact description for that moment of E. C. Gordon, ex-Pfc. and hero by trade. I was fairly certain what those two faint lights were and the closer I got the more certain I was - I could smell the damned thing and place its outlines. A rat. Not the common rat that lives in city dumps and sometimes gnaws babies, but a giant rat, big enough to block that rat hole but enough smaller than I am to have room to maneuver in attacking me - room I didn't have at all. The best I could do was to wriggle forward with my sword in front of me and try to Keep the point aimed so that I would catch him with it, make him eat steel-because if he dodged past that point I would have nothing but bare hands and no room to use them.

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