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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 02:43 PM
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17. "I, too — red of blood and rude of health — would have to say I generally prefer the sight of nubile
beauty to that of a murdered man’s shattered corpse ... But perhaps he would have done well, in choosing this comparison, to have reflected on .. the historical and cultural changes that made it possible .. for the death of a common man at the hands of a duly appointed legal authority to become the .. center of an entire civilization’s moral and aesthetic contemplations — and for the deaths of all common men and women perhaps to be invested thereby with a gravity that the ancient order would never have accorded them."
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