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"As yet he was only a little more significant than the fake Marius executed earlier in the year – only his wealth and unambiguous link with the dictator made him different – and might be almost as easily eliminated. Antony planned to summon the Senate and have the boy declared a public enemy.¹⁵
Then something happened that changed everything, and suddenly made the young Caesar of immediate importance."

Am trecut la editia de lux. Aia de-o tii s-o dai cadou si din care nu citesti. O viata avem (cred).

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For Ramona it evidently surrounded him with glamour. And provided that he remain macho she would listen with glistening eyes, with more sympathy, and more, and more. She transformed his miseries into sexual excitements and, to give credit where it was due, turned his grief in a useful direction.
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"Lord, I ran to fight in Thy holy cause, but kept tripping, never reached the scene of the struggle."

Herzog, tragically sipping milk in Philadelphia, a frail hopeful lunatic, tipping the carton to quiet his stomach and drown his unquiet mind, courting sleep. He was thinking of Marco, Daisy, Sono Oguki, Madeleine, the Pontritters, and now and then of the difference between ancient and modern tragedy, according to Hegel, the inner experience of the heart and the deepening of individual character in the modern age.

You got trouble, I can see that. Jumping out of your skin. You got a soul-haven't you, Moses." He shook his head, smoking his cigarette with two stained fingers pressed to his mouth, his voice rumbling. "Can't dump the sonofabitch, can we? Terrible handicap, a soul."
Moses answered in a low voice. "I'm not even sure I've got the thing still."

Progressing through this book in small chunks, but each reading episode feels highly relaxing and engaging. High quality unpredictable prose.

Perfect balance of academic text and documentary prose.

"Urmind un proces de prelucrare evolutiv, tot ce era sfint fusese redus, treptat, pina in cele mai mici amanunte, la imagine. Cu bratele sale rugatoare, omul trasese cerul jos".

A very promising start