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...flying a little bit higher than the aircraft in front of me. I was near the end of the second group. The leader was at 3,000 m. Gradually, the other planes were each a little bit higher. I was at 3,500 m. I felt like a shepherd watching the flock. I felt good about that...
...large scale "Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships" ($19.95; 224pg; Image Comics) merely tells the back story to Agamemnon's attack on Troy. But this includes the story of Paris, a shepherd who, upon learning he's the lost son of Troy's King Priam, lustily kidnaps Sparta's Queen Helen. Preparing to retaliate, Agamemnon spends three years scheming to gather the thousand ships and heroes prophesied as pivotal to victory. One of these, Achilles, has been hidden among the female charges of a minor king to protect him from his bloody fate. The book ends where most others would...
...flaking off the exterior ironwork and bricks crumbling from the walls. A Maserati, a Bentley and an early 1960s Aston Martin are parked in the yard. The cars have flat tires. There is trash everywhere. Keeping watch by a side door is a life-size statue of a German shepherd, with bared ceramic fangs and a pink tongue that glistens in the sunlight...
...When police searched the home, they also found a real German shepherd frozen in a solid block in a large freezer next to a bouquet of roses and some dog food. Obara would later say he had preserved it with the hope that, one day, science would enable him to "reanimate my loving pet into a clone dog." Strange as it was, the dog fits a pattern Obara had of hoarding personal detritus. There were stacks of old car batteries, trashed TV sets, receipts, journals and personal tape recordings dating back to the 1970s. The biggest haul comprised more than...
...Iliad and Odyssey--including Vergil's Aeneid, Dante's Inferno, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Tennyson's Ulysses, Joyce's Ulysses--might not exist. And what damages would today's judges award Christopher Marlowe? He wrote a wildly popular poem called The Passionate Shepherd to His Love that was answered, in identical verse form, by Sir Walter Raleigh in his The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. Then John Donne piped up with The Bait, a bawdy variation that opened with the same line ("Come live with me and be my love") as Marlowe...