Honor

Andy Robertson · 23 Nov 2005, 17:15 · from 2005-November.txt.gz

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From: andywrobertson at clara.co.uk (Andy Robertson)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:15:11 +0000
Subject: (urth) Honor
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transentient writes: 

> I will need to track down this essay and read it. 
 

http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html 

 

> I think that  
> Able is a really good depiction of the kind of man who brought  
> western civilization from the fall of Rome to the Rennaisance. I  
> don't think it a good or easy fight, and if we'd had a lot more men  
> like Able maybe we'd be having this dicussion via email in the 1400's  
> or so. 
> 
> -Cliff 
> 
 

Yup.

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