"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was the beginning of the end for the White Goddess. Amongst animals only man is conscious of his place in the world, only man realises that time passes, that he is mortal. As the word took over, as Adam delved and Eve span, the superior power of...
Nicolas Poussin the Frenchman and I have one thing in common, like him I have spent most of my adult life in Italy and we arrived at about the same age. The Rome he found in 1625 was however very different from today's, with a population of little more than 100,000 - more of a town...
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