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"Dear friend, of course I remember. Wasn't it just yesterday? Yesterday, but a century ago. In this city, but on a planet that is now far away. How all these things get confused: times, places, the world broken in pieces, not to be glued back together again. Only the memory--that's the only remnant of life."

finished book iii. note for later: think i'll get waterfield's annotated edition soon, probably physical.

finished book i and ii. george long's translation.

finished "to marcia" and "on anger, book i".

this hurts

THREE PROOFS - Raphael, Saint George and the Dragon, 1504-6

Fervor reduces thought to shorthand and all we get is an icon. Give a man a weapon and you have a warrior. Put him on a horse and you have a hero. The weapon is a tool. The horse is a metaphor.

[...] the current scientific fashion, which, in the very process of treating suicide as a topic for serious research, manages to deny it all srious meaning by reducing despair to the boniest statisctics.

"God says nothing in the world is useless," said Gecko.

"Don't be such a know-it-all. You don't have the slightest idea what God says."

One.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It's the playing that's irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.
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The woman pulls away, kisses me and disappears with her sparkling heels. Queen of Heaven, go with her.
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Sequester my heart.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

Faces of History in the Historia Augusta:

It is just when realities vanish that man's talent to satisfy himself with mere words functions at full tilt. Once Rome has vanished, its ghost will have a persistent life.

Done with Exodus.

Kirmmse bless up good sir.

The vibes are so good.

Hell Screen what the... Dragon was something as well.

Finished In a Bamboo Grove. Lots to think about, for better, or for worse.

Finished Rashomon. Damn.