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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva writes:
> That is true, although it does not tell us what happened to the slaves *in
> time*: did their descendents eventually gain citizenship?
Who knows? But there are not too many identifiable folk who have not
assimilated. That nobody really understands precisely what a helot was, is
one demonstration.
I know of a story of one annihilated city whose survivors petitioned their
tyrant to let them return over 20 years later. The image it makes is of a
ragged band of old men hoeing fields. Certainly Thebes was resettled. Then
there is Hisarlik with 11 cities all in a pile...
> (out of curiosity, the Tower and the games are separate articles, aren't they?)
Yes. The Prestige story spills from the front page onto page 12, followed by
the Pentathlon story and an ad for "Your anniversary date in Roman Numerals"
on a gold ring.
I find myself thinking of the satirical novel _Towing Jehovah_ in which a
tanker captain, having run his single-hulled ship aground, suffers
nightmares of a dying, oil-soaked albatross, but receives a chance to redeem
himself when the Vatican hires him to tow God's titanic dead body out of the
Atlantic into the Arctic for freezing. He doesn't tell the Pope, but he
calculates how much faster they can tow God if His blood is pumped into
another tanker first. Along the way they are forced to eat God after the
crew mutinies, but the ship's cook finds a way to make God taste like
McDonald's Big Mac.
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| (...) I recall a NG documentary where the explorers dug a basement in Jericho (sp?), and found an almost complete arsenal of human arms since Ancient Times to 1947 Independance war of Israel. In *a single* basement... so I can understand what you (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Fair enough :-) (...) That is true, although it does not tell us what happened to the slaves *in time*: did their descendents eventually gain citizenship? Were they assimilated? The city state, having been overrun, was it rebuilt? Did the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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