Unloved Girl in Spokane WA writes (Dear Abby 28 July 2011)
"Dust and clothing have started to build up in my bedroom. I have told my mom, and she doesn't do anything about it, and I'm tired of telling her! The mess makes it hard live in.
"I think she does not love me since she will not do anything about the mess. What should I do?"
28 July 2011
When is obstinacy your best bet?
Torquato Tasso writes (Jerusalem Freed V.3) "so fickle and changing is this world, we find that to be constant we must change our mind."
25 July 2011
Are you as catty as an ancient historian?
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> Polybius writes (XII 15) "Agathocles in his early youth was a common prostitute, one willing to associate with the most licentious characters, a jackdaw, a buzzard, a man who would face in any direction on request. Besides all this, Timaeus says that when Agathocles died, his wife, as she was lamenting him, cried out: 'Ah, what have I not done to you! What have you not done to me!'. . . . And yet Timaeus' description of Agathocles makes it clear that the man must have possessed some remarkable natural advantages."
> Polybius writes (XII 15) "Agathocles in his early youth was a common prostitute, one willing to associate with the most licentious characters, a jackdaw, a buzzard, a man who would face in any direction on request. Besides all this, Timaeus says that when Agathocles died, his wife, as she was lamenting him, cried out: 'Ah, what have I not done to you! What have you not done to me!'. . . . And yet Timaeus' description of Agathocles makes it clear that the man must have possessed some remarkable natural advantages."
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