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discursive essay gold mine

A case for vegetarianism

« Each morning Dawn arrives earlier, the hours of daylight expanding, flocks of migratory cranes, then ducks, then songbirds pouring overhead, as though darkness is losing and victory is preordained. »

“the ridges of the mountains below fall away in a cascade of deepening blues”

“But books, like people, die… and when a book dies, the memory dies a second death.”

“Each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right”

“A text—a book— is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.”

Lines 550-565
“As the stars in the sky stand out in all their splendour round the bright moon, when the upper air is still; when every lookout place, headland and mountain ravine stands out, and infinite upper air floods down from the skies; when every star is visible, and the shepherd rejoiced in his heart - so many were the fires, lit by the Trojans”
“…awaiting Dawn on her golden throne”

!!!! Ok Iris, create drama then

The Greeks were really obsessed with fame and glory

Pyrrhus is soulless, a shred of a person, unworthy to be called Achilles’ son

What is up with the guards they are so incompetent

Amazing description of the heart

Patroclus was the only thing keeping Achilles’ humanity intact

Plot twist!!

I’m getting a strong feeling this is their last day

How does Patroclus not remember the prophecy that is about him??

And just like that, a gentle, intimate image is created between the two to show their enduring love, strained as it is by Achilles’ changed self.

Confirmation!!! “You are a better man than I.” - Achilles to Patroclus

This is so f****ed up

Achilles is irritatingly arrogant but I understand why because everyone feeds his ego

I bet you anything it’s Patroclus