The Song of Achilles
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He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?
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As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun.
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My mind groped towards understanding. Achilles had not gone to Chiron. He had waited, here. For me.
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They never let you be famous and happy.”
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When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
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Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
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“When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
Patricia
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