- "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." — James Joyce
- "Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?" — Ulysses Everett McGill
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Wednesday’s Heroes: Pliny the Younger
xx xx xx He understood the responsibility of giving witness, even if it took him a quarter-century to act on it. History is a narrative written by many, and those who write what they’ve seen are its first authors. Those … Continue reading
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Tagged aieeeee!!, goddamn that's a big cloud of smoke, pliny, rome, vesuvius
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Wednesday’s Heroes: Lucan
He was a child prodigy. He fomented insurrection. He upstaged the most powerful man in the world. He died at 25, younger than Hendrix, Morrison, or Cobain, the same age as Cliff Burton and Tupac. He had the coolest name … Continue reading
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Tagged dante, history, lucan, poetry, rome, sandman
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