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The Plague
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How to picture, for example, a city without pigeons, without trees and gardens, where you encounter neither the beating of wings nor the rustling of leaves, in short, a neutral space?
“Decked in the spoils you stripped from one I loved—escape my clutches? Never— Pallas strikes this blow, Pallas sacrifices you now, makes you pay the price with your own guilty blood!”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“In the middle of an animated conversation, she had mentioned a recent arrest that caused controversy in Algiers. A young office worker had killed an Arab on a beach.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Troy has fallen—and fallen let her stay— with the very name of Troy!”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling— no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“But of course—so Turnus can fetch his royal bride— our lives are cheap, scattered in piles across the field, unburied and unwept.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
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