“The weapons attacking her were a diverse mix: antiques such as American carbines, Czech-style machine guns, Japanese Type-38 rifles; newer weapons such as standard-issue People's Liberation Army rifles and submachine guns, stolen from the PLA after the publication of the "August Editorial"; and even a few Chinese dadao swords and spears.”
Source: Iel Migration Law in China
“Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best of all gifts.” - Helen, about the war”
Source: Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad
“And then I remembered: he will never be old.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Achilles shook him. "Just come back.”
Source: The Silence of the Girls
“Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.”
Source: The Classics Reclassified
“Helen
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.
All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills.
Greece sees, unmoved,
God’s daughter, born of love,
the beauty of cool feet
and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid,
only if she were laid,
white ash amid funereal cypresses.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1912-1944
“Never lose sight of the fact that writing is a strange, inhuman function, a reflection of the inhumanity of language itself. Through writing, language, which is a domestic species, becomes a wild one again.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι”
“They're power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They're immoral, people said, and they're scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me into evil. I'd be pulled toward depravity. Blasphemy would begin to seem like truth, bad like good, God like Satan. It had happened to people through the centuries, they said. And they were right. All that did happen.”
Source: Not in Kansas Anymore
“For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...”
Source: A Three Dog Life