[lbo-talk] New interest dawns for Italy's old pagan roots

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Tue Nov 11 07:34:31 PST 2008


On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
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> Can you come up with a childish nickname for Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus?

I wouldn't treat Caesar's son-in-law that way. But Marx once wrote to Engels that Shakespeare had gotten him perfectly in *Measure For Measure*. So, if you wish, consider yourself authorized to call him "Pimpey."

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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