"The Carthaginians, in one of their campaigns against the Sicilian Greeks, had seized and carried away a valuable statue of the Grecian Apollo. This god of the vanquished had been selected as a gift worthy of the acceptance of the mother city, and had been placed at the footstool of Moloch in his Tyrian temple. The Grecian god, in this state of degradation, was naturally suspected of rejoicing at the approach of his [soldier] countrymen; and the morbid feelings of some Tyrians deluded them so far, as to lead them to imagine that he had appeared to them in their sleep, and announced his intention to desert. This case was brought before the magistrates, who could not discover a more effectual mode of allaying the popular apprehensions than by binding the disaffected statue, with golden chains, to the horns of Moloch’s altar."

--Th* Lif* and Actions of Al*xand*r th* Gr*at by the R*v. John Williams (1829)


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fatidic · scry silt stars dull
   braying and nitwit
story my oft fails · attic
pilgrim · adit with occult


"Fashion Muslims, that's all we need!"


"The worst-case scenario is three to five years before anybody finds it inhabitable."


"The O. E. D. ...is perhaps the 19th-century epic, as the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is that of the 18th."

--K*nn*r


Kar*n X has a hom* pag* now!