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so if the soul leaves the body thru the mouth while eating and drinking, makes sense why K has mine. he stole it, little by little, at all those meals we shared over the years.

The divine person is a source of danger as well as of blessing; he must not only be guarded, he must also be guarded against.

dude really will take 900 pages to answer one question hahaa. and that's the abridged version, too.
i am jealous of ppl hundred years ago. they had so much leisure time to read a huge ahh book, slowly. i long for that sort of peace.

The ablest man is dragged down by the weakest and dullest, who necessarily sets the standard, since he cannot rise, while the other can fall. -- The surface of such a society presents a uniform dead level, so far as it is humanly possible to reduce the natural inequalities, the immeasurable real differences of inborn capacity and temper, to a false superficial appearance of equality.

the adonis of hedonis son of penis in the shrine of whachamacallinis ...huh. i am, i confess, very shallowly educated in antiquity. difficult to track all them characters of that multiverse.

"the indians africans scots and other savages" lol. there's also, unsurprisingly, a lot of racism in this.