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focus,’ said Hermes. ‘Relaxation without focus leads to failure.’ ‘Focus without relaxation leads to failure just as surely,’ said Athena. ‘So concentrate …’ said Perseus. ‘Exactly.’ ‘… but calmly?’ ‘Concentrate calmly.
She looked down, plucked Alcides from her nipple and threw him disgustedly from her. Milk sprayed from her nipple in a great arc across the night sky, imprinting it with stars. Stars which, from that moment, would be known as the Milky Way.
Hahahaha, disse historiene blir bare mer og mer crazy
As Yoda had expressed it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: ‘Do. Or do not. There is no try.’
Lol
To this day the Pillars of Hercules greet travellers who pass through the straits. The African pillar is called Ceuta, the Iberian is known as the Rock of Gibraltar.
Det må jeg google!
The day will come when even benign creatures will vanish from mortal sight – the nymphs, fauns and spirits of the woods, waters, mountains and seas; they will become no more than rumours. Yes, us Titans too. Even the gods on high Olympus will fade from man’s memory. I see it, yes, but it is yet a distant future.
Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.’
Orpheus was the Mozart of the ancient world. He was more than that. Orpheus was the Cole Porter, the Shakespeare, the Lennon and McCartney, the Adele, Prince, Luciano Pavarotti, Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar of the ancient world,
His mother Calliope found his golden lyre and carried it heavenwards, where it was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Lyra, which contains Vega, the fifth brightest star in the firmament.
‘But since then Lemnos has had a heavy history. There are no men on the island, only women.’
but we can never do more than guess the outcomes of the roads we do not take.
The Muses whisper in my ear and tell me I am done.
Beste slutten på en bok jeg har lest
