Also, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered words that resonated with me so well:
“Things are grim—both in the world at large, and for us as individuals. We all overestimated the world: even me, an absolute pessimist. The world is very, very stupid, and bestial. There are more brains in a cowshed. Everything: humanity, civilization, Europe, even Catholicism: the cowshed is cleverer.”
I never knew Alexander Dumas’ father became the Haitian governer and was a French general, then died in prison. No wonder he wrote about prison escape and revenge.
King Arthur never existed, the first reference to him comes about 600 years after his supossed reign and most details we associate with him were written about 300 years after that.
It is unlikely the Grail (as we know it) ever did either.
Yes there may have been a cup he drank from but the chances it was preserved are pretty much zero. It is not even mentioned till 500+ years after the event,
From the article:
The first mention of the existence of an actual Grail relic comes in 570 in the form of an anonymous travelogue to the Holy Land, written by a man scholars call the pilgrim of Piacenza.
It is the equivalent of someone today claiming they were shown the quill pen Shakespeare used to write Romeo and Juliet.
When he took those first sea snails in his apartment back in 2007, it was just a week after his honeymoon. “My wife was horrified by the by the smell; she almost kicked me out of the house… But I had to carry on,” he says.
He should do everything he can to keep her if she dealt with that and stayed. Decaying shellfish is just about the worst thing to smell.
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