Tag: <span>travel</span>
Very quiet at times, like a dream
sounds like a distant song within you…
The athletes of the ancient Olympic Games fought naked, just as the statues of the gods were naked, which were modeled like the bodies of the athletes. They were admired by everyone for their strength and boldness. Sometimes they died from the blows they received in fistfights. During chariot racing, it could happen that the chariots overturned in the curve and this led to the death of men and horses. The athletes preferred to risk their own lives to avoid the humiliation of defeat. As is still the case today, the dedication to training and the effort of competition have only one goal…Victory.
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How dare I compare the two gentlemen you might wonder, yet that’s exactly what I will do. Perhaps it’s not so much a comparison more of a reminder of how relationships, marriages, love, and aging work.
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I didn’t hear about her in school, but read about her later, in my early 20s in a book about her remarkable life. I had paid 3 Austrian shillings (fifty cents) for the novel in an old second-hand bookstore in Vienna. The title of the paperback “Theodora, from Prostitute to Empress.”