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Unread 04-10-2018, 03:46 AM
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Ah, Rob, I take your point about Arnold's darkling plains. They are a constant in the subject of conquest, stretching forward to Auden's Shield of Achilles and rolling back to Tacitus's account (a beautiful fabrication) of the speech of Calgacus before the last battle; one that he, like Achilles, was about to lose.
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