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“Common sense is common, has no imagination, and only works by precedent. It leaves the man who follows it poorer, if not in pocket, then in his heart. Fuck common sense.”

“It’s despair and meaning that are being pitted against one another, and it’s asking, if meaning departs from reason, might there not be wisdom in a faith-filled lunacy?”

“There’s always something left for the person who remembers.”

“Tonight we’re not drinking to forget, but to remember and dream. It’s hope that makes us afraid, and I remind myself that a man should be grateful for his fears, ’cause it means he has something to lose and to win.”

“For the world was once just a dream in a god’s eye, and the man who gives up on himself makes that very same god look away.”

“Am I losing faith too easily? Aren’t there a load of things that have happened to me this last while that would’ve seemed nuts?”

“Why haven’t I said it? Was I only playing, or is this real?”

“and that is why we call those who are mad with longing lunatics. It’s not the moon moving them, but the mad shepherd who’s forgotten who he is.”

“I see that I don’t know this woman at all, only wish to.”

“I’d throw in my lot with you and work till the skin came off my fingers if it were for us and not just me.”

This guy sucks

struggling to get thru this one but godspeed and keep going 🥲

I don’t know how a book set in 412 BC in Syracuse can feel Irish but this certainly manages it.

why do I hate the main character

What an absolute banger

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Its a Slow burn I will finish it 🫣

Still trying to figure out what’s so Glorious about this book

Because what else should one read whilst in Athens?

Nothing like procrastinating finals by reading

this being a 5 star read 30ish pages in ohhhhh I’m sat

Damn I’m kind of obsessed with this book!

It’s a humorous, thought-provoking plot line. I’m yet to be ideally impressed.

so he didn’t die but EVERYONE ELSE DID?

“You don’t rob a man of his suffering,” says Gelon quietly. “That’s his.”

i’m worried strabo will die

So hum 110 Greek unit coded I’m loving it

Unsure if to dnf or continue

funny and very profane. i read it in a scouse accent internally

Landed in Greece 2 hours ago so now begins my Greek binge in books (sorry Godkiller, you’ll have to wait)
Very fun read and I have somehow almost cried already