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...Dave B. Olim Ambler...
...Olim erat magister linguae Latinae nomine Richard Case, LVIII, qui do-cebat in Middlesex Schola, Concordiae, Massachusetts. Tristis erat quod multi suorum discipulorum putabant linguam Latinam aridam esse, et nolebant grammaticam studere...
Itaque Case coepit scribere fabulam heroicam quam discipuli legere amarent. Appellabatur Daimon, et incipi-bat simplicissime: "Olim erat in insula Herakleia puer nomine Daimon . .." Case primas paucas paginas exhibuit quattuor ex suis discipulis et hi constituerunt illi auxilium ferre ad fabulam scribendam. Case dixit: "Ab eventu ad eventum procedebamus, intellexi, si pueri ipsi fabulam invenirent, certe excitaturam esse...
Once upon a time, as Elon tells his disillusioned story, the early Zionists (circa 1882) were "secular rabbis of a new faith of redemption." The founders of modern Israel called themselves olim: pilgrims, "those who ascend." Generally, they were mystics with a "terrible sincerity," an "almost inhuman sense of rectitude," and "not a glimmer of doubt...
...Olim meminisse iuvabit," reads the appropriate inscription on the new pump. Certainly even the new pump already has several good things for which to be remembered. On Wednesday, January 20, 1937, real beer flowed from the pump...