And yet
In the past a country has often with
its destruction met
By the vainglory of a few, by their
lust for praise, to own
A title to cling to the stones that
guard their ash—stones
That the ruinous strength of a
barren fig tree can undermine
And split, since even to sepulchers
doom is also assigned.
—Juvenal, Satires, trans. Hubert Creekmore.
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This
McCain guy is a real fucking nutter, huh. Permanent war, the retraining of the minds of men to accept it—whoodawg! Dang! Dizanger!