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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
"I’ll go on. You must say words, as long as there are any—until they find me, until they say me. (Strange pain, strange sin!) You must go on. Perhaps it’s done already. Perhaps they have said me already. Perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story. (That would surprise me, if it opens.) It will be I? It will be the silence, where I am? I don’t know, I’ll never know: in the silence you don’t know. You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
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The Unnamable; Samuel Beckett
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Jacques Derrida (I think)
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Politics, Book VII; Aristotle
“If we were to be regarded as lesser subjects, denied the rights afforded to others, then I could not in good faith defend their judgement. I would instead commit myself to building my own.”
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George Washington
Short story; influenced by Just and Unjust Wars, by Michael Walzer, but quote by Hojae Kirkpatrick
“The tragedy of war lies in this; those who fall in its service never witness the triumph or destruction of the cause to which they gave their last measure of devotion.”
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George Washington
Short story; influenced by Just and Unjust Wars, by Michael Walzer, but quote by Hojae Kirkpatrick
“The tragic hero is not a morally perfect man, but one who falls into misfortune through some error of judgment.”
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Poetics; Aristotle
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Notebook of Thoughts; Giacomo Leopardi
Redemption, The Ultimate Goal of Humanity. “Man is within one step of his ideal—the ultimate goal of his desires—that realm of freedom where he will no longer be subject to law, but, being “led by the spirit,” will realize that he, himself, is an operator and attribute of the law. Man is law in action. Will man now take the final step into complete liberty and become a god, or continue to eat of the husks of dual concept and still cower beneath the lash of “precedent and authority”?
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God-Man; George W. Carey, Inez Eudora Perry
“Remember that you are an actor in a play, the character of which is determined by the playwright. If he wishes it to be short, it is short; if long, it is long. If he wants you to play a beggar, do it well; if a cripple, a ruler, or a private citizen—what matters is that you play your part beautifully.”
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Enchiridion, 17; Epictetus (romanticized by me)
“I see a song of past romance, I see the sacrifice of man…I see portrayals of betrayal and a brother’s final stand…I see you on the brink of death, I see you draw your final breath…I see a man who gets to make it home alive, but it is no longer you.”
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Epic: The Musical