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“Tiberius's brother, Gaius, was an absolute riot. Said to be the first person in Roman history to pull his cloak open and expose his shoulder while speaking, which is both pointless, and a bit sexy.”
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
“We all impose some coherence—some meaning—on the chaotic events of our existence. We rummage through the raw images of our memories, selecting, burnishing, erasing. We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we have done—or haven’t done.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“People were forced to jump from a village into a city, to make the giant leap from feudalism to communism, without the time or education to develop a civic society vandal its values and habits, from the concept of private property to huma rights, from democracy to toilet paper.”
― Café Europa: Life After Communism
― Café Europa: Life After Communism
“Just as people tailor their stories to serve their interests - revising, erasing, embroidering - so do nations.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“It's easy to distance ourselves from the past and write 'the civil war lasted four years' and forget how unbearable those four years were for the people of Rome while half the men were off killing one another, with no knowledge of when it would end. Four years is a long time in the lives of humans.”
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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We are under influence of laws, culture, politics, religion, and so ever changing current of events, but not only. Influences, such as economy of coun ...more
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