February 2012
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The Epic of Atrahasis
When the gods were man
they did forced labor, they bore drudgery.
Great indeed was the drudgery of the gods,
the forced labor was heavy, the misery too much:
the seven great Anunna-gods were burdening
the Igigi-gods with forced labor.
The Igigi-gods were digging watercourses,
canals they opened, the life of the land.
The Igigi-gods dug the Tigris river
and the Euphrates thereafter.
Springs they...
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“What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Elder Statesman (via proustitute)
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