the senseless repetitions of history were all for naught if you find meaning in this

[rokkitz]

"Like characters in a story that keeps changing, we find ourselves playing roles that others appear to have invented for us, in plots whose roots and consequences escape us. We declare ourselves Roman or Carthaginian, but our notion of what Rome and Carthage are is either too restricted to too ambitious to be useful beyond the shorthand of a label

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[that]

"You won't think Rome is so imaginary when we throw you into the Arena."

[ext_1111114]

oh, good one, what's that from?

[that]

Nothing in particular.