Law of Poe

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Cairo: The City Victorious by Max Rodenbeck

overcrowding, traffic and pollution all problems going back 3000 years.

p. 101 -- Cherries ferried by flock of doves from Lebanon, 980's

1099 ad, Crusaders revolutionized middle eastern war by slaughtering entire civilian population in Jerusalem

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All Things Shining by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly

When Nietzsche proclaimed God is dead, he believed that "it would be a long time before God's grounding role in the culture was no longer obvious or taken for granted"

Christian excellence: humility, love
Roman: duty
Greek: gratitude, wonder

Furies v. Apollo, old tribalism v. new reason, law

"The Chorus recognizes that the Furies notion of blood vengeance, creating an unending cycle of revenge, will destroy any culture that adheres to it."

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City of Thieves

"May your children shit in your soup"

"You have all the romance of a train station whore"