Oops
I forgot. Always some exception will make the rule.
And some of these books, like the Iliad, are passed down from sage to sage in a venerable oral tradition, alive as a body of work in the intellects of the lawmakers and academics: the body politic, an organic whole as subject to the growth, appetites, infirmities, and addictions as is the human body upon which it is predicated, and over which it governs. Its purpose? To guide the sovereign nation on its inevitable trek towards that most perfect of all states, the Republic, at which it may arrive one day.
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Och, aye, then, laddie. Celebrate Bobbie Burns's birthday, did ye?
Rue Britannia!
--Mary Anne