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“Among ourselves, according to the sacred scriptures and sound doctrine, the citizens of the holy city of God, who live according to God in the pilgrimage of life, both fear and desire, and grieve and rejoice. And because their love is rightly placed, all these affections of theirs are right.”

“Now, three to three, ye stand. Commend thy murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon it. Drink, ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat’s bow - Death to Moby Dick!”

Epic

“I was brought up by my father’s grandmothers.
I went wrong when I strove to be a better man than my anda.
In this life, if the two of us,
it’s my name that’s reached from sunrise to sunset
it’s Jamugha who’s reached the end of his days.
…
And Chingis Khan made a decree, saying:
Execute Jamugha without shedding his blood
and bury his bones with all due honor.”

*Goldsworthy talking about very normal things*

Next sentence: “The Parthians may have turned emperor Valerion into a footstool and then later skinned him”

*Goes back to very normal things*

What a trip

“Lay hold now on the celestial country, which is easily won, and in which you will reign truly and for ever. For there shalt thou find no vestal fire, no Capitoline stone, but the one true God.”

“It was a feeling; it was an urge that he had to speak. But whatever he spoke he knew would be but another name for the wilderness that he sought. It was a freedom and a goodness, a hope and a vigor that he perceived to underlie all the familiar things of his life, which were not free or good or hopeful or vigorous.”

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”

Totally bonkers