Jacob Lawrence, "Market Scene" (1966)
Jacob Lawrence, Market Scene (1966)
Can a Game Be Literature?

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January 22, 2011:

So much poetry over such tiny kingdoms.

From the top of one hill you can see three fortresses: stone walls nine feet thick. Close enough to throw stones from one to another.

The crops were tilled by slaves. There couldn't have been that many: the entire vale is just a few miles.

Center of the Homeric world.