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they handed it down to us of the present generation” (2.36). O, Perikles, blood for blood! Each of you, my loyal subjects, therefore, must try to “stifle his own particular sorrows as he joins with the rest in working for the safety of all” for “you cannot continue to enjoy the privileges unless you also shoulder the burdens of empire” (2.63.1).
O monotonous agony! Empires and empires, expul them to the fire! Oarsmen! These burdens we carry! O memory! O weight! O flesh! That we must go on living and loving and bearing children, so they must go on dying in her name! O mad fate of fates, O loss of loss! O where, O where am I? Tossed somewhere in the whirlwinds tossed 3⁄4 follow I
3⁄4 the loss of spring
3⁄4 near the time after “the three-thousand-year war and a one day, the one and one and a nine day, after twenty-seven years since the first one and a one and a nine day, close to the end of the twentieth second month and a month and a day and then ... one moment, it is still, it is sharp, the telling of ...
The limbs, the sorrows, the despair, the perplexing tv war in my living room, the scenes, the blood, the cascades, the cascades of red flushing with red torn flesh red ... red and red ... rojo es mi ojo ... until a force of a million men buried the red word at the first watch of the night near the place of the unthousand springs which to this date does not exist ...does not x.is.t.
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