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Sunday, August 01, 2010

Experiencias

Sometimes I have wanted to go to war.
The stories are always good — Thermopylae
Was good, the Gallic campaigns were as good
As you could get against barbarians,
The Crusades were outright inspirational.

Everyone ought to go off to a war
Before he is too old to have the good
Of it. The people we call pacifist
Forget (or never learned) the power of it,
The sense of godliness killing provides.
[...]
(War, Robley Wilson)

Deja, lanza mía, de ser usada para que te cubra con su tela la araña. (Erecteo, Eurípides)

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