April 2012
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Just noticed this: Gabucci's list of 100 bloggar... →
We know that it is vulgar, but a little self-promotion will do no harm. Your friends of The Asmonti Chronicles are in at #99, like Wayne Gretzky! Seriously, thank you to the lovely people at Gabucci for the acknowledgement.
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The non-latinists amongst our followers have...
Petronius calls for a brief retrospect. He was a man whose day was passed in sleep, his nights in the social duties and amenities of life: others industry may raise to greatness — Petronius had idled into fame. Nor was he regarded, like the common crowd of spendthrifts, as a debauchee and wastrel, but as the finished artist of extravagance. His words and actions had a freedom and a stamp...
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Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled...
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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