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As for his motives, we err greatly when we try to make Alexander anything more than a man of supreme military ability who wanted passionately to rule the world. Views of the Macedonian king as Prometheus bringing the light of Greek
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So the whole while I was reading this book I was wondering, WTF is the point of all this? Then on the last page... perhaps not much.
“In the night I was asleep,’ Christophe says. ‘It was some old ghost, I suppose.’ ‘Surely not,’ Riche says. ‘I never heard of ghosts that walk in June.’ There’s something in that. It was the veiled ladies—living women, as far as one knows—who attended him, till dawn came and they faded into the wall. He remembers the dappling of their garments, the streaks of darkness where they had wiped the queen’s blood on their robes.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Latimer says, ‘Confession is not a sacrament. Show me where Christ ordained it.’ Cranmer says, ‘You will not get the king to agree.’ Henry likes to utter his sin and be forgiven. He is sincerely sorry, he will not do it again. And in this case perhaps he will not. The temptation to cut off your wife’s head does not arise every year.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Do you know why they say, ‘There’s no smoke without fire?’ It’s not just to give encouragement to people who like fires.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Simone de Beauvoir, writing on the same subject, concurred: “To protest in the name of morality against ‘excesses’ or ‘abuses’ is an error which hints at active complicity. There are no ‘abuses’ or ‘excesses’ here, simply an all-pervasive system.”24”
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“In that moment the phalanx forms a unity so dense and all-divining that it performs not merely at the level of a machine or engine of war but, surpassing that, to the state of a single organism, a beast of one blood and heart. The foemen’s arrows rained upon the Spartan line. From where I found myself, just behind the rear-rankers, I could see the warriors’ feet, at first churning in disarray for purchase on the blood and gore-beslimed earth, now settle into a unison, a grinding relentless cadence.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
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