THE KILLING KIND

And heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead
Returning lightly dance...
                   -Edward Thomas,
                     "Roads"


Judge not the preacher,
for he is thy judge
                    - George Herbert
                     " The Church-Porch"


"To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned"
                      -Rudyard Kipling
                        "Gentlemen-Rankers"


A great book is like great evil.
                      -Callimachus
                       (c.305-c. 240 B.C.)