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“I would know him in death, at the end of the world… He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

Patroclus

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

“In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by- pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.”

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East Coker, T. S. Elliot

“By the time the ink hits the pages of this book, scholarship will have sailed on. But that is a happy conundrum, and it is worth the risks if we can start to build a provisional map, inevitably to be filled in and corrected as discovery advances.”

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The Fate of Rome, Kyle Harper