It's my fault. I should have gotten butthurt at Vince. Now it would lack plausibility.
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Wait. Has anyone seen William Haskins? He can offend me, surely.
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Skeleton found in ancient Greek tomb
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It's my fault. I should have gotten butthurt at Vince. Now it would lack plausibility.
ETA:
Wait. Has anyone seen William Haskins? He can offend me, surely.
Thereupon many statesmen and philosophers came to Alexander with their congratulations, and he expected that Diogenes of Sinope also, who was tarrying in Corinth, would do likewise. But since that philosopher took not the slightest notice of Alexander, and continued to enjoy his leisure in the suburb Craneion, Alexander went in person to see him; and he found him lying in the sun. Diogenes raised himself up a little when he saw so many people coming towards him, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. And when that monarch addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, "Yes," said Diogenes, "stand a little out of my sun." - Plutarch
Pffft. The market should determine how much artisans should be paid. However, I agree with your point about the waste of treasury dollars. Such tombs should be built by private entities, not the government.
it all falls away
like tattered leaves
from a dying tree.
our gods and kings
and in-between things
rot with the
corpse of history.
and yet we remain,
to bellow and bray,
and pray in fits
of fugue and madness;
to curve like a herd
beset by jackals.
like tattered leaves
from a dying tree.
our gods and kings
and in-between things
rot with the
corpse of history.
and yet we remain,
to bellow and bray,
and pray in fits
of fugue and madness;
to curve like a herd
beset by jackals.
And what exactly is that supposed to mean, William? Is this implication directed toward anyone in particular?
It's Haskins again, Haggis. He's the one who's always sneering about dog skulls. I mean, he even put one in his Thorn Forest poem.
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oh, you are a wicked, wicked man.
Haggis? Are you going to ban him?
I mean, he didn't even offer us any scotch.
Haggis? Are you going to ban him?
I mean, he didn't even offer us any scotch.
Well, damnation. You're going to force me to read pomes again, ain't you?
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Plumbing facilities perhaps, with the toilet still running?
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/27/local/me-60092
Sorry, but all the "what else do you expect to find in a tomb?" stuff made me think of this.
Seriously, I hope they can get a better idea who it might be in the Greek tomb.
You'd think, with all the decorations and the size of the thing, that there's a clue in there somewhere. Shouldn't his/her name be engraved somewhere?
At any rate, it's apparently splendid enough to be a royal tomb.
I'm dying of curiosity.
What is it with this preoccupation with the ruling class? History is the struggle of the common man to escape the clutches of the ruling class, yet every time old tombs built for the privileged few with the blood and sweat of thousands are found, everybody goes all gaga.
Besides, Alexander was one of the most bloodthirsty of all the rulers of all time. He spent most of his ruling years leading a campaign to enslave ever-larger territories to do his bidding. He's a picture-book example of an imperialist megalomaniac, and people get all excited about the possibility of finding his evil bones?
I don't get it.
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