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William Gillespie on Harry S Keeler's "webworks".

" 'We shall relapse into childhood,' said Elton. 'No one ever really comes out of it. That is why life is such a strain. We have to pretend.' " --@icomptonburnett.bsky.social

"Like carpenters they want to know which tools. / They never ask why build."

starter dose · of Double Think
   drinkin' the Koolaid
that frown on the face of the sky · is scuba weather
   together reaching
new frontiers · of noose frippery

Gaius Valerius Catullus, the boy from the provinces who became the lover of the most powerful and beautiful married woman in Rome, is dead at twenty-nine. His friend Marcus Caelius Rufus must search for the meaning of his life in the slums and bloody secret cults, the palaces and law courts of the tottering Roman Republic.