David Cake
<< I started reading Chinese history to get a feel for Kralorela. I
was struck by two things. One, that this was damn fun, and two, that it
wasn't Kralorela, >>
Keith N
>You're right David. Ancient China, as far as I can tell, seems to be a far
>more "interesting" (as in curse "may you live in interesting times") place
>t\an Kralorela with its stable government, peaceful populace, lack of nasty
>neighbours.
" Power-mongering, fence-sitting war lords, policy peddling plotical
clients, panacea- vendors, needle fine Machiavellian intriguers, itinerant
Nestors, down-at-heel wizards of statecraft, indeflectible assassins,
ruthless pimps of Realpolitic, generals and tacticians of superb genius and
cunning - dog-butchers, gamblers, tipplers, farmyard impersonators, medics,
cat-burglars, jesters, masters of wisecrack, lascivious princesses,
seductive
concubines, philosophers, giants of the mind, immortals of the tongue,
saints
of astounding virtue and fortitude, and rogues of limitless treachery - all
this is only a part of the cavalcade which we witness in the pages of Sima
Qian's Historical Records....."
Yes, this is humanity act. (Not Dragonewt) And they always have wanted ideal and failed.
Christoph Kohring
>"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. All great men were
evil
>men." Lord Acton
>What more is there to say ? Nothing.
Caesar burned Library of Alexandria, many scholars questioned about this violence and shouted "Why?" (Me, too...) and would expect to rip up him as Minuses did Orpheus (maybe he still wanted shadow of his dead wife...)
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