tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post3979534771268800965..comments2014-02-01T06:58:08.931-08:00Comments on This Is Ragnar Danneskjöld Speaking: So what happens now? The political shrugRagnar Danneskjöldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07761782170471633530noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-46392239406596735402013-03-01T14:58:46.906-08:002013-03-01T14:58:46.906-08:00For some reason, this comes to mind.
Nero's T...For some reason, this comes to mind.<br /><br />Nero's Term<br />Nero was not worried when he heard<br />the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle.<br />"Let him fear the seventy three years."<br />He still had ample time to enjoy himself.<br />He is thirty. More than sufficient<br />is the term the god allots him<br />to prepare for future perils.<br /><br />Now he will return to Rome slightly tired,<br />but delightfully tired from this journey,<br />full of days of enjoyment --<br />at the theaters, the gardens, the gymnasia...<br />evenings at cities of Achaia...<br />Ah the delight of nude bodies, above all...<br /><br />Thus fared Nero. And in Spain Galba<br />secretly assembles and drills his army,<br />the old man of seventy three.<br /><br />- Constantine P. Cavafy (1918)<br />Behttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04593480051760923088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-88564545170474648522013-02-28T06:24:15.156-08:002013-02-28T06:24:15.156-08:00Well, its about time. It hurts when the full reali...Well, its about time. It hurts when the full realization that you've been duped finally hits home huh? It hit me back in November that any way I voted was simply an endorsement of the status quo regardless of whether there was a D or an R behind whichever candidates name I selected.<br /><br />So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable - Aldous Huxley <br /><br />This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector - PlatoRightWingNutJobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872880320712486733noreply@blogger.com