Rapaire offers: "The savage ruler who wields the sceptre with a hard hand/ Fears the timid, and thus fear returns to its author." from Seneca Oedipus 705-6.

Rustic: I am doused in glory's own blush by your sweet remarks; however it needs saying that all that post was a quote, from the opening page of Ulysses, a scene from Joyce set on a ruined tower on the edges of Dublin. I was simply providing a correction to the strange palimpsest committed by Vincent in the earlier post. David Gergen and Bert, indeed. Humph!! :>D

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