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...Turkey are at war. The last King of England has abdicated. A virulent plague is scouring the earth of humanity, but our hero, a disaffected nobleman, is strangely immune to the disease. The end of the book finds him climbing the dome of a deserted St. Peter's in Rome???a dog his only companion, the last human being left alive on the planet. Shelley called the book The Last...
...where the Dutch provincial of the Augustinian order has proposed opening the country's 23 Augustinian convents to men and women of any Christian faith, married or single. Life would follow an experimental communal pattern that has not yet been fully worked out. They may not have the chance. Rome???which may remember that both Luther and Erasmus were Augustinians?has threatened to disband the Dutch province if it goes ahead with the project...
...flights from reality?orotund, florid, declamatory, and so ecstatic as to approach hysteria. Communists delight in identifying themselves historically with Spartacus and his slave revolt; the S.A.O. officers see themselves as Roman legionnaires holding off the Red barbarians on the marches of empire and sending back semaphore messages warning Rome???or rather, Paris?to "beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams are full of their death, and often at night we hear the desperate cries of the colonial peoples whom we were forced to abandon...
...ROAD TO ROME???Rome trembles as Hannibal comes, sees a lovely Roman, and is conquered...
...ROAD TO ROME???A lady makes love while dogs of war roll over and play dead...