Ancient Sea Kings

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    All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and ... you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
    Anita Brookner (b. 1938)

    Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, -Why have you done thus and so?
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 1:6.