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Just a few miles upriver, the royal court at Westminster was much involved with a similar although considerably more lavish celebration. His gracious highness King Edward IV had momentarily slipped behind the tapestry screen in order to
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“For where thou art, there is the world itself,
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation.”
― King Henry VI, Part 2
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation.”
― King Henry VI, Part 2
“What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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