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'reading as constellating' ♥️

"Over and over the helmet casing his hollow temples rings out shrill, the solid bronze of it splits wide open under the rocks... and Tiber swept him into its yellow tide, catching him as he came, then bore him up in its soothing waves and bathing away the carnage, gave the fighter back to friends." The battle in Book 9 is significantly better than the whole of the Iliad omg.

Again "they conspired with great impetus, in that whirlwind of air and dust they stirred up, to kiss the ass even of the clouds" is just not a string of words one often finds together lol.

The phrase "ruttingly eager at last to dispose of all the dispositions made disposable by political power" does not exist anywhere else but here I'd imagine.

What a sentence! "Relics of an age dissolved into the void, with its frivolities, and its clichés, and its condoms, and its Masonic screwing around."

'The Roman caricature of Stoicism also appeals to the muscular will. But true Stoicism, the Stoicism of the Greeks, is purely desire, piety, and love. It is full of humility.'