I have always imagined....

....that Paradise will be a kind of library -- Jorge Luis Borges------------------------------------------------------------------------THEODOTUS (on the steps, with uplifted arms). Horror unspeakable! Woe, alas! Help!RUFIO. What now?CAESAR (frowning). Who is slain?THEODOTUS. Slain! Oh, worse than the death of ten thousand men! Loss irreparable to mankind!RUFIO. What has happened, man?THEODOTUS (rushing down the hall between them). The fire has spread...

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Of Other Reasons

Phaedr. I should like to know, Socrates, whether the place is not somewhere here at which Boreas is said to have carried off Orithyia from the banks of the Ilissus?Soc. Such is the tradition.Phaedr. And is this the exact spot? The little stream is delightfully clear and bright; I can fancy that there might be maidens playing near.Soc. I believe that the spot is not exactly here, but about a quarter of a mile lower down, where you cross to the temple of Artemis, and there is, I think, some sort of an altar of Boreas at the place.Phaedr. I have never...

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