Thracian Lake (from Physiologus)
Վասն ծովակի, որ ի Թրակէ
Ի Թրակէ է ծովակ մի. յորմէ թէ ըմպէ ոք կամ լուանայ, մեռանի։
Thracian Lake
There is a lake in Thrace. Anyone who drinks of it or washes in it dies.
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In Defense of Civilization
In Defense of Civilization This is an interview with Michael Bonner about his book, In Defense of Civilization , just published yesterday by Sutherland House . — BM: Your book, In Defense of Civilization , comes out on April 4th. What prompted you to write this book? What was the impetus? MB: Right at the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, a friend of mine and I were lifting weights at the gym. We were already very upset with the state of the world, and the news out of Wuhan was making us even more concerned. After some reflection, we realised that there was nothing we could do about anything but continue ‘getting huge’ at the gym. Kidding aside, he then suggested that I write a short book that would explain, broadly speaking, what had gone wrong in the world. Apart from that there were two main impetuses. The first was our collective experience of pandemic, quarantines, lockdowns, extreme political tension, rioting, forebodings of doom, quasi-apocalyptic expectations, and l
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