"All the inhabitants succumbed to pestilence.
Swept away are the great warriors.
Their towers and walls are deserted,
the desolate city crumbles away.
Who could repair any of it,
for they are long dead."
-Ruin, a paragraph of a poem we read in history class a few years ago describing the collapse of the Roman empire.
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WatsonsBowtie
Sep 10, 2016 09:09AM
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451-“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”View all Conversations
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Words.
Just simple clusters of words. Nothing too exciting.
[It's a bit of chemistry; the words are atoms and sente...
