Power and fear," he said. "The tools of statecraft.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The war at Troy seemed to grow in song, poetry, and story all the while. As it faded from living memory, it grew larger and larger. Men claimed descent from one or the other of the heroes, or, failing that, anyone who had fought in the war, which now assumed the stature of a clash between the gods and the titans.

Calais is an interesting place that exists solely for the purpose of giving English people in shell suits somewhere to go for the day.

Written By Bill Bryson

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