The palace, an old, low, Syrian building of whitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace and the officers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modern English officers: for example, they do not dig up the corpses of their dead enemies and mutilate them, as we dug up Cromwell and the Mahdi. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them but you would not guess that from their appearance. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east.
TOKYO ∙ SYDNEY ∙ CAPE TOWN ∙ AUCKLAND ∙ BEIJINGĪn October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. PARIS ∙ MADRID ∙ BERLIN ∙ ROME ∙ MEXICO CITY ∙ MUMBAI ∙ SEOUL ∙ DOHA LONDON ∙ NEW YORK ∙ TORONTO ∙ SAO PAULO ∙ MOSCOW Is rather to be pitied just now in view of the fact that Julius Caesar is invading his country." Read more
Would, if influentially connected, be employed in the two last capacities by a modern European State on the strength of his success in the first. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers."and a bit later: "Belzanor is a typical veteran, tough and wilful prompt, capable and crafty where brute force will serve helpless and boyish when it will not: an effective sergeant, an incompetent general, a deplorable dictator.
For example, in setting the scene of the first act (my underlining of bits I liked): "A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. My favorite parts, though, were in the stage directions and commentary.
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