![]() ![]() Caesarĭictators must know the truth, but must never permit themselves to be told it. I was the instrument of a higher wisdom that selected me for my limitations and not my strengths. ![]() If any mistakes occur this time I shall replace you and offer you for sale. ![]() My brother and I are giving a dinner on the last day of the month. ![]() I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps. I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. In any event, it is clearly a work of considerable scholarship and breathes a lushness into the language. Perhaps it inspired John Williams to write 'Augustus'. And given the title and my elementary school diploma, I pretty much know how it's going to end.Īn epistolary novel, I imagine it was inventive for its time. It's a beaten-up first edition (sold for $2.75 way back in 1948), the cover embalmed in lamination. It's an obscure work by a fairly respected author. This 'The Ides of March', though, is the kind of book that would hide for years on a TBR shelf. But before you send smiling emojis, virtual pats on the back, or other huzzahs, please know that other Goodreads friends wrote reviews of books that caused me to engage in a zero sum game with myself and order two new books which even I, a mathematics dullard, can figure out this means I have more, not less, books to read. Inspired by several Goodreads friends, I decided to slide this book out of one of the TBR shelves, to lighten that load. ![]()
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