Cletus, King Among Maggots!

[Yossarian]

You all go right ahead and hail away Cletus.

There's no Cletus over here (thank god) and I have it on good authority that he isn't going to be posting much over there for quite a while either, at least until Pliny The Elder can guarantee that his posts aren't just going to get erased.

Anyway, I'm staying over here. Nice features, nice feel. Nice work Owens.

[Woodsy]

"Naught is more hostile to a city than a despot; where he is, there are first no laws common to all, but one man is tyrant, in whose keeping and in his alone the law resides, and in that case equality is at an end. ……

…Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having reserve of youthful citizens, while a king counts this a hostile element, and strives to slay the leading men, all such as he deems discreet, for he feareth for his power. How then can a city remain stable, where one cuts short all enterprise and mows down the young like meadow-flowers in spring-time? What boots it to acquire wealth and livelihood for children, merely to add to the tyrant's substance by one's toil? Why train up virgin daughters virtuously in our homes to gratify a tyrant's whim, whenso he will, and cause tears to those who rear them? May my life end if ever my children are to be wedded by violence! "

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