Wednesday, April 14, 2004

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I am not sleeping with S. and therefore I do not know he facts of her economic existence She received a settlement from the accident and purchased what she described as a house. At the time I assumed it was in Brooklyn but maybe she meant an apartment in Manhattan, though come to think of it perhaps it might be in the Bronx where there are neighborhoods with houses.

She did not want to meet. Otherwise I would have liked to do so.
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Charlemagne had 4500 Saxons beheaded in one day in the year 782 at Verdun. I can imagine the night before the scene of the axmen being order to sharpen their axes, and the tree stumps being arranged for the next morning. There must have been a general busy-ness as the prisoners' hands were tied behind their backs. Imagine the merchant who received the huge order for rope. When the order was made known there might have been a general panic among the prisoners--they were pagans, however, and might have had thoughts of honorable deaths and Valhalla.

Charlemagne justified his brutality by his desire to unite Germany as a Christian state. Germany was still a mass of fighting tribes of savages and soon he would join the Frenchies into his brutally Christianized kingdom.