A joke about the first edition of the Iliad, & the real megillah...which starts around $3K. (Oh, you want the Greek first edition? That one sold at Christie's for $89,000 (in 1994).
"Sometimes I wonder whether alien space vessels are inherently fuzzy & out-of-focus (that would be terrifying)." --@neiltyson
"From nine spools is your Lachesis-woven thread."
"If You Fall Asleep at the Wheel
It’s not the noise but the air.
It’s not the traffic or the heat but the clouds.
It’s not the lightning or the rain but the thinking.
It’s not the insomnia but the night terror.
It’s not the pain but the swelling.
It’s not the mask. It’s the tear."
Also, "Labelye went over-budget and over-deadline, struggling to get his new caisson technology to work, losing in total five boats over the course of the building with horrifying casualties among the workmen..." Scholars writing for other scholars in a dead language is not so different, after all, from poets writing poems that can only be understood rightly by another poet.
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