Avram Davidson - Vergil in Averno (1987)

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Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.

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Though you expel Nature with a pitchfork, she will always return.

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Clearly this was no time to ask if they should first define their terms. Nor, for that matter, had Socrates had to define the bowl of hemlock.

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It had not been precisely a fruitful meeting, but it had been a long one.

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It was but that, seeing him and so imagining that something about him was otherwise, automatically they feared him.

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Suppose Sisyphus to have been acquitted his need of forever toiling up his hill in Hell, would he have made the last journey in joy? Or would mere fatigue have extinguished all other emotion, as a torch extinguished in a sconce?

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Everything meant something, still, some meanings were revealed sooner than others. And that some were seemingly never revealed in no way disproved the fact.

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It's not a matter of who runs first or who runs last. It's merely a matter of who gets caught.

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It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them...

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She spun, as a matter of form and status alone, her woollen yarn and her oft-breaking thread. What else did she spin? he wondered. And the answer, not spoken aloud, was, a web.
And one that now seemed sure to hold him fast.
To hold him fast indeed.

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