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Murray
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"Dark one, dear one, wife, girl, queen, my Italian, my love." We made love, rather hastily and with a good deal of laughter at first, but with a rising wild passion, so that at the height of it I felt that he had made me one with the sea and its tides and its deeps. When we came back to the world he lay there on the sand. He was so beautiful I touched his face with my fingertips, and he lay half asleep in sunlight.
— 19 hours, 46 min ago
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Murray
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A portent occurred in Laurentum: the doors of the War Gate swung open of themselves.
People came to Janus' altar and found the gates hanging ajar. The bolts of the iron hasps that held in place the great locking beam had rusted through, so that the hasps gave way and let the beam drop. The hinges also were rusted and askew, so that the gates could not be closed.
Latinus was gravely troubled by the omen.
— 23 hours, 26 min ago
People came to Janus' altar and found the gates hanging ajar. The bolts of the iron hasps that held in place the great locking beam had rusted through, so that the hasps gave way and let the beam drop. The hinges also were rusted and askew, so that the gates could not be closed.
Latinus was gravely troubled by the omen.
Murray
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It’s like reading the Iliad and the Aeneid stirred in with an undiscovered myth about Aeneas’s Latin lover who Virgil begrudges words that might enchant and beguile us - but here with our Virgil Le Guin and her poetic and powerful voice we are definitely enchanted and entranced 💫
— Mar 30, 2026 11:23AM
Murray
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The most magnificent book. The most magnificent writing. It’s as if Homer and Virgil and goddess Diana and Ursula had gotten together to write Lavinia 🩷
— Mar 30, 2026 05:42AM
Murray
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The presence of the trees was very strong. The first time I wondered if I might hear the voice that my father heard speak from among them in the dark. The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion. I went back to the sacred enclosure praying, beseeching these great powers to have pity on my weakness. I was glad I had lit no fire.
— Mar 29, 2026 05:35PM
Murray
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Something different than a wizard of EarthSea I think 🌿 🌿 ties into my Roman and Greek and ongoing classical binge ⚔️🏺
— Mar 24, 2026 02:28PM
