The city of Troy was razed to the ground seven times, and rebuilt on her own ashes seven times more. She sits, strong-walled, on a hill made of the charred relics of her forebears
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I do too! Note on Troy: I always feel strange about Troy NY. It has such a non-violent tragic flavor. My personal theory is that, Troy went down in flames. That's my image of Troy. Fire and smoke and falling city walls, with derranged prophetesses roaming the streets. Troy NY died the least interesting death ever. The houses are Victorian and beautiful: if they'd burned down there would be an accomplished lost something about them. But they're just kinda there. Nothing happened. People forgot about them. And they just sit there collecting dust and trash and the people no one in NY or Albany wants. So its probably a bad omen to name your city Troy. Because Troy had a glorious violent end once. So it can't again, and this time it just gets forgotten and goes stale. I wonder what would happen to New Carthage :) -Redd
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Note on Troy: I always feel strange about Troy NY. It has such a non-violent tragic flavor. My personal theory is that, Troy went down in flames. That's my image of Troy. Fire and smoke and falling city walls, with derranged prophetesses roaming the streets. Troy NY died the least interesting death ever. The houses are Victorian and beautiful: if they'd burned down there would be an accomplished lost something about them. But they're just kinda there. Nothing happened. People forgot about them. And they just sit there collecting dust and trash and the people no one in NY or Albany wants. So its probably a bad omen to name your city Troy. Because Troy had a glorious violent end once. So it can't again, and this time it just gets forgotten and goes stale.
I wonder what would happen to New Carthage :)
-Redd
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