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"Greek script was not economical: it economized to the point of meanness in useful parts and was generous to the point of extravagance in useless parts."

"Tacitus is a sort of waterfall over which Classical Latin literature takes a last gloomy and splendid plunge." --J A K Thomson, Irony (1927)

E pluribus.

"shadows long and dark
on the yard below the guard-tower
red and orange sky
a solitary buzzard
flying home before twilight"

—Antonio Laravie in Lynx XXIV:1 (2009)

The Last Man on Mars.